Snakes and Ladders (Frank Tovey album)

Snakes and Ladders is a studio album from Frank Tovey. The 1986 release was the first album credited under his own name as opposed to Fad Gadget, used for his first four albums.

Snakes and Ladders
Studio album by
Frank Tovey
ReleasedMay 1986 , re-released 2001
Recorded1985
GenreNew wave
LabelMute
ProducerFrank Tovey and E.C. Radcliffe
Frank Tovey chronology
Snakes and Ladders
(1986)		 The Fad Gadget Singles
(1986)

The original North American vinyl release featured the track "Collapsing New People" from the 1984 Fad Gadget album Gag. This track was not included on subsequent CD releases. However, versions of the original vinyl album in some territories included an additional EP featuring four other previously released Fad Gadget tracks (one from each album, though "Collapsing New People" not among them), and these tracks were used on CD releases, along with the single B-sides "Bed Of Nails" and "Clean This Act Up".

Personnel
  • Frank Tovey, vocals, guitar, synthesizer
  • Davis John Simmonds, keyboard
  • Guy Evans, "batphone" and "fibrephone"
  • David John Rhodes, rhythm guitar
  • E.C. Radcliffe, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
  • David John Rodgers, bass guitar
  • Nicholas John Cash, drums

Track listing

Original LP release
  1. "The Cutting Edge"
  2. "Snakes and Ladders"
  3. "The Cutting Edge" (Reprise)
  4. "Shot in the Dark"
  5. "Concrete"
  6. "Luxury"
  7. "Small World"
  8. "Luddite Joe"
  9. "Megalomaniac"

("Collapsing New People" on North American vinyl issues, located before "Luxury" at the beginning of side 2)

CD release
  1. "The Cutting Edge"
  2. "Snakes and Ladders"
  3. "The Cutting Edge "(Reprise)
  4. "Shot in the Dark"
  5. "Concrete"
  6. "Luxury"
  7. "Small World"
  8. "Luddite Joe"
  9. "Megalomaniac"
  10. "Bed of Nails" (B-side of "Luxury" single)
  11. "Clean This Act Up" (B-side of "Luddite Joe" single)
  12. "Coitus Interruptus" (originally from the 1980 Fad Gadget album Fireside Favourites)
  13. "Innocent Bystander" (originally from the 1981 Fad Gadget album Incontinent)
  14. "Sheep Look Up" (originally from the 1982 Fad Gadget album Under the Flag)
  15. "Ideal World" (originally from the 1984 Fad Gadget album Gag)
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