Japan, 1980, RVP6473

"There's no such thing as a private life"

Above: Brand New Age Japanese LP release, 1980, front and back covers.
Click to enlarge.

Cat. No: RVP6473
Label: RCA
Recorded: January 1980
Released: 1980

Side One:

You Can't Take It Anymore (Harper, Garratt, Slack, Davies) 1.59
Brand New Age (Harper, Garratt) 1.32
Public Servant (Harper, Garratt) 2.15
Warhead (Harper, Slack) 3.20
Barbie's Dead (Harper, Slack) 2.19
Organised Crime (Harper, Garratt) 2.06
Rat Race (Harper, Garratt) 1.58

Run-out groove: RVP 6473A 11 1
There are further characters which are not possible to reproduce here

Side Two:

Emotional Blackmail (Harper, Garratt) 2.44
Kicks (Harper, Garratt) 1.51
Teenage (Harper) 2.31
Dirty Girls (Harper, Garratt) 1.48
500cc (Harper, Garratt, Slack) 2.15
Bomb Factory (Harper, Garratt) 2.11
Emotional Blackmail II (Harper, Garratt) 1.08

Run-out groove: RVP 6473B 11 1
There are further characters which are not possible to reproduce here

Line Up

Vocals: Charlie Harper
Guitar: Nicky Garratt
Bass: Paul Slack
Drums: Pete Davies

Japanese release on RCA with a plastic inner sleeve, orange RCA labels (white for the promo), a printed band around the sleeve (an OBI strip) and a fold-out insert featuring the same pictures as the UK release but printed back to front. There is a large amount of text in Japanese written by Gaku Torii and Kensho Onuki. From some of text that is in English it seems to cover the history of the band so far, this would make sense as this was the first Subs release in Japan and the only one on RCA.

The reverse of the insert has the lyrics in English and Japanese with some slightly unusual translations; "The girls inside The Marquee, all juiced up to be"

Click on images to enlarge

Promo Side 1 Promo Side 2
Side 1 Side 2