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Avoid Freud
Avoid Freud
Studio album by Rough Trade
Released	October 13, 1980
Recorded	August – September 1980
Genre	Art punk; new wave;
Length	34:56
Label	True North (Canada); Stiff America (U.S.); CBS (Netherlands)
Producer	Gene Martynec; Rough Trade
Rough Trade chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Rolling Stone	(Not Rated) ^[2]

Avoid Freud is the second album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands).^[3] It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian RPM Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. (Inferred from archive listing for following week.)^[4] The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the CRIA on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year.^[5]

The first single released from the album was the controversial "What's The Furor About The Führer?" b/w "Fashion Victim" (True North TN4-157),^[3] the latter track becoming the larger hit, reaching #25 in Canada on the National Top 50 Singles Chart on February 7, 1981^[6] and #3 on the RPM CANCON Chart the following week.^[7] The album's most famous single, however, is "High School Confidential" (b/w "Grade B Movie", True North TN4-159),^[3] which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism. The influential Toronto radio station CHUM-FM paid for the band to record a cleaned-up version that avoided the line, "She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way."^[8] It reached #1 on the RPM CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.^[9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Carole Pope and Kevan Staples

No.	Title	Length
1.	"It's a Jungle"	3:17
2.	"High School Confidential"	3:26
3.	"Lie Back, Let Me Do Everything"	3:22
4.	"Physical Violence"	3:55
5.	"I Can't Take It"	3:42
6.	"What's the Furor About the Führer?"	3:22
7.	"Fashion Victim"	4:06
8.	"Emotional Blackmail"	2:42
9.	"Hostage"	3:38
10.	"Grade B Movie"	3:56

Personnel

Carole Pope - lead vocals
Kevan Staples - vocals, guitar, piano, synthesiser
David McMorrow - vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesisers
Terry Wilkins - vocals, Fender fretless bass
Bucky Berger - vocals, drums
Gene Martynec - vroducer
Gary Gray - engineer
David Taylor - assistant engineer
George Marino - mastering
Peter J. Moore - remastering, restoration
Vicki Wickham - direction

References

^ Allan, Mark. Rough Trade: Avoid Freud > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
^ Rolling Stone review, January, 1981^{[dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b ^c Rough Trade Discography. Laventure.net (1981-11-06). Retrieved on 2010-11-11.
^ "RPM 50 Albums". Volume 34, No. 15. RPM. March 21, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
^ "Music Canada, Gold Platinum Database".
^ "RPM 50 Singles". Volume 34, No. 9. RPM. February 7, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
^ "RPM Top 30 CANCON Singles". Volume 34, No. 10. RPM. February 14, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
^ Pope, Carole. Anti Diva. Vintage Canada, 2001, p.143. par. 1 ISBN 978-0-679-31137-9
^ "RPM 50 Singles". Volume 35, No. 2. RPM. June 20, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.