Swastikas for Noddy is a 1988

1988 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....

 album by English

England

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 music group Current 93

Current 93

Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...

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The lineup for the recording was: David Tibet

David Tibet

David Tibet is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo...

, Steven Stapleton

Steven Stapleton

Steven Peter Stapleton is a British musician and the only constant member of experimental improv outfit Nurse with Wound...

, Jhon Balance, Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall is a Scottish musician, most notably as a vocalist in the pop band Strawberry Switchblade.-History:...

, Boyd Rice

Boyd Rice

Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...

, HÖH

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson

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, Ian Read

Ian Read (musician)

Ian Read is an English neofolk and traditional folk musician.-History:Read left school at 16, and at the age of 17, he became an adherent of Germanic neopaganism and began studying Germanic paganism . He was particularly interested in galdor or magical metrical poetry and the runes...

, Freya Aswynn, and Douglas P.

Douglas P.

Douglas P. , is an English folk musician, record label owner, photographer and actor who records under the name Death In June. He was born in Sheerwater in Woking, Surrey, and resides in Australia. Douglas P. is openly gay.-Crisis:Pearce began his musical career in a British punk band called Crisis...

, Gary Carey and Bee.

The album was re-released in 1993

1993 in music

This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....

 under the title Swastikas for Goddy. All references to Noddy were changed to Goddy due to copyright issues.

Fans called the album "the pop album", because compared to the former style of the band, this one consists of more structurised songs with acoustic instrumentation.

The material was reworked and rerecorded, and released in 1989 on United Dairies

Steven Stapleton

Steven Peter Stapleton is a British musician and the only constant member of experimental improv outfit Nurse with Wound...

 as Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God

Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God

Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God is an album by the English group Current 93. The album contains music reworked and rerecorded from their 1988 album Swastikas for Noddy.-Track listing:# "He Is Everywhere Nowhere" - 2:55# "Northforth" - 0:38...

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Since Yesterday is a remake of the Strawberry Switchblade

Strawberry Switchblade

Strawberry Switchblade was a female pop rock band formed in Scotland in 1981 by Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, best known for their song "Since Yesterday" in 1985.-Before being signed:...

 song of the same title, this is Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall is a Scottish musician, most notably as a vocalist in the pop band Strawberry Switchblade.-History:...

's full time band.

Track listing

1. "Benediction" - 1:58
2. "Blessing" - 1:48
3. "North" - 0:38
4. "Black Sun Bloody Moon" - 0:54
5. "Oh Coal Black Smith" - 5:29
6. "Panzer Rune" - 5:26
7. "Black Flowers Please" - 3:43
8. "The Final Church" - 5:12
9. "The Summer of Love" - 1:54
10. "(Hey Ho) the Noddy / Goddy (Oh)" - 1:52
11. "Beausoleil" - 8:33
12. "Scarlet Woman" - 0:59
13. "Stair Song" - 0:25
14. "Angel" - 1:29
15. "Since Yesterday" - 4:04
16. "Valediction" - 1:00
17. "Malediction" - 2:04