Taking its name from an album by Roland Kirk, Rip Rig & Panic kicked it off in 1981. They evolved from Bristol's The Pop Group. In fact Rip Rig & Panic was The Pop Group minus Mark Stewart, for all that encompasses.
Rip Rig + Panic was a high-spirited jazz-funk fusion band with art-punk sensibility.who leapt around stylistically from track to track. Tranquil piano solos provide contrast to screeching sax, Arabic & Far Eastern elements against the hard-edged vocals of a very young Neneh Cherry or Ari Up (Slits) on God.
Attitude, the band's most accessible album, comes closest to standard song form, while maintaining a zany eclecticism, keeping the show rolling with deft musicianship & oddball humor.
Side One -
Keep the Sharks from Your Heart
Sunken Love
Rip Open, but Oh so Long Thy Wounds Take to Heal
Do the Tightrope
Intimacy, Just Gently Shimmer
How that Spark Sets Me Aglow
Side 2 -
Alchemy in this Cemetry
Beat the Beast
The Birth Pangs of Spring
Eros; What Brings Colour up the Stem?
Push Your Tiny Body as High as Your Desire Can Take You
Viva X Dreams
This one has Neneh, Ari Up, & Flash on vocals. This is the 2005 reissue with four bonus tracks.
Rip Rig & Panic - God reissue, Progressive Line PL543, 2005.
Constant Drudgery is Harmful To Soul, Spirit, & Health
Wilhelm Show Me the Diagram (Function of the Orgasm)
Through Nomad Eyeballs
Change Your Life
Knee Deep in Shit
Totally Naked (Without Lock or Key)
Try Box Out of this Box
Need (De School You)
Howl! Caged Bird
Those Eskimo Women Speak Frankly
The Blue Blue Third
Shadows Only There Because of the Sun
Beware (Our Leaders Love the Smell of Napalm)
Miss Pib
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Brrod
bonus tracks -
Go, Go, Go! (This is It)
The Ultimate in Fun (Is Going to the Disco with My Baby)
Bob Hope Takes Risks
Hey Mr. E! a Gran Grin with a Shake of Smile
Also released in 2005 as an unofficial reissue from Pregressive Line with five extra bonus tracks. I was hanging on to the version I had until I could get this one with the extras. Here it be...
Rip Rig & Panic - I am Cold +, Progressive Line PL545, 2005.
Hunger (The Ocean Roars it Bites)
Epi Epi Arp Woosh!
Another Tampon Up the Arse of Humanity
Misa Luba (Lone Wolf)
Storm the Reality Asylum
Here Gathers Nameless Energy (Volcanoes Covered by Snow)
A Dog's Secret
Liars Shape Up or Ship Out
Warm; To the If in Life
Nurse Increase the Sedatives (The Torment's No Better)
Take a Don Key to Mystery
Tax Sex
Subversive Wisdom
Fire Eyes Joyful Silent Tears
bonus tracks -
You Are My Kind of Climate
She Gets so Hungry at Night She Eats Her Jewellery
Storm the Reality Asylum (extended mix)
Leave Your Spittle in the Pot
It's Always Tic for Tac You Foolish Brats
Enjoy,
NØ