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John Campbell [top] and Jarvis Whitehead formed the core of It’s Immaterial
The Hit Machine | UK | 7″ | 1980 | HIT 001a
It’s Immaterial: Young Man [Seeks Interesting Job] UK 7″ [1980]
- Young Man Seeks Interesting Job
- Doosha [A Success Story]
I have this primordial single in the Record Cell. More here.
Inevitable | UK | 7″ | 1981 | INEV 009
It’s Immaterial: A Giant Raft In The Phillipines UK 7″ [1981]
- A Gigantic Raft In The Phillipines
- No Place For A Prompter
This single was released on Liverpool indie Inevitable in 1982, only to be re-issued the next year on The Wonderful World Of, a more obscure Liverpudlian label.
IHM | UK | 7″ | 1982 | IHM 002
It’s Immaterial: Imitate The Worm UK 7″ [1981]
- Imitate The Worm
- The Worm Turns
By this time, they release the next single on a Liverpool Indie label that I have never heard of.
SFX Publishing | UK | Cassette | 1982 | SFX04
SFX #4 UK CASS [1982]
- Washing The Air [early version]
I have this cassette, but it really needs to be baked for remastering; it’s a cacophony of binder squeal. The song here was the first time I’d heard It’s Immaterial, and the track may be the “Washing The Air [demo ver.]” included on the new DLX RM. Time will tell.
Eternal | UK | 12″ | 1983 | JF2T
It’s Immaterial: Imitate The Worm UK 7″ [1981]
- White Man’s Hut
- The Worm Turns
- Solid Piles Of Food
In 1983, they signed to WEA subsidiary Eternal for their first 12″ single. “The Worm Turns” on this disc is marked as a self-production, so It’s probably the same version on the earlier “Imitate The Worm” single. Colin Fairley produced the A-side here.
Eternal | UK | 12″ | 1984 | JF 4T
It’s Immaterial: A Gigantic Raft UK 12″ [1984]
- A Gigantic Raft [In The Phillipines] [Tempest mix]
- A Gigantic Raft [In The Phillipines]
- The Mermaid
The next single from 1984 was a new version [engineered by David Bascombe!] of the “Gigantic Raft” song, with a new B-side.
Situation Two } UK | 12″ | 1985 | Dove 3
It’s Immaterial: Fish Waltz UK 12″ [1985]
- The Better Idea [Push The Boat Out]
- Several Brothers
- Lullaby
- Fish Waltz
This last EP was issued by Situation Two probably to clean out finished early recordings in their locker after the band were signed to Circa.
Viper | UK | CD | 2001 | CD 006
Various Artists: Unearthed – Liverpool Cult Classics Vol. 1 UK CD [2001]
- It’s Immaterial – New Moon
This compilation album surfaced in 2001 sporting a “new” It’s Immaterial track, “New Moon.” Odds are that this is an unused early track rather than something dating from their Post-Circa era.
Viper | UK | CD | 1982 | CD010
Various Artists: The Great Liverpool Acoustic Experiment UK CD [2002]
- It’s Immaterial – Just Drive
The next year, Viper released this CD of Liverpool bands playing acoustic material, so five’ll get you ten that this is an acoustic version of “Driving Away From Home.” Perhaps dating from the year of issue. That’s a healthy amount of tracks, and at the very least a solid CD of “It’s Immaterial: The Early Years Of Bitter Struggle®, If we don’t take matters into our own hands, chances are it will never get done.
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This takes me back to the days when bands slipped out a single here, an ep there, sometimes over the span of a fair few years…your only way of finding out they existed was forensic reading of the music press, or more likely scouring the racks of the local indie record store and being surprised that the band your thought had only one single to their name had a history. My brother was a IM fan back then and was always on the look out for these singles, they weren’t that easy to find even in the mid 80s.
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SimonH – Don’t you know it! Pre-Internet there were a plethora of paradigm-shaking surprises awaiting you in those bins! Even today, the book gets re-written every few years as new data gets added to sources like Discogs.com. One year you have a complete Blow Monkeys collection. A few years later, not so much!
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Are you aware that It’s Immaterial are currently trying to crowdfund the release of their lost third album, House For Sale? I’ve pledged, but I’m not confident that the word is getting out. I’ve been wanting to hear this record for decades…
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/itsimmaterial?referrer=project_launched&utm_campaign=project14268&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pledgemusic
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Jonathan Allen – Welcome to the comments. Thanks so much for sharing this. I’m a PledgeMusic customer and this was news to me. More later…
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Stumbled on your blog while researching exactly the album that you are talking about here. I’ve compiled two albums of singles and rarities from the band, the first one is here https://albumsiwishexisted.blogspot.com/2019/10/its-immaterial-young-men-seek.html and the second will follow at the end of the week. Hope it’s what you were looking for.
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Peter Jolly – Welcome to the comments! Yes, it does seem like we are cut from similar cloth. There’s nothing I like better than making the CDs and boxed sets of god® that no label in their right mind would actually issue! Now I only need two more It’s Immaterial singles before I can get to work on the mooted set. Possibly a 2xCD set. Well, those, and some money for archival CD-R blanks. And the biggest factor of all… TIME.
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The second volume is now up https://albumsiwishexisted.blogspot.com/2019/10/its-immaterial-crooked-tunes-1992.html so feel free to download and rip to CD if you like. It will at least save you having to seek out those last two singles (‘Driving Away From Home’ and ‘Ed’s Funky Diner’ i’m guessing?)
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