More Fun in the New World

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More Fun in the New World
Studio album by X
Released	September 1983
Recorded	1983, Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles
Genre	Punk
Length	41:11
Label	Elektra Records
Producer	Ray Manzarek
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A-) link Rolling Stone link
X chronology
Under the Big Black Sun (1982) More Fun in the New World (1983) Ain't Love Grand! (1985)

More Fun in the New World is the fourth album by the band X. It was reissued with four bonus tracks by Rhino Records in 2002.

The sound on this album was more polished than their previous efforts, Los Angeles, Wild Gift, & Under the Big Black Sun. Many of the band's loyal fan base from their earliest L.A.-area gigging days were disappointed, feeling the band had taken a more commercial approach. The overall sound of the album, particularly the vocals of singers John Doe & Exene Cervenka, however, had excelled, and the record has received critical praise from some fans and from records reviewers, particularly Rolling Stone and Playboy, who had long been stalwart supporters and fans of X and their sound.

The band recorded "Breathless" after they found out that an American version of Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film À bout de souffle was being made. In the event, the 1983 film used the Otis Blackwell-written Jerry Lee Lewis 1958 song during the film and X's version during the end credits. Something Wild (1986) used "The New World."

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 1.3 Bonus tracks (2002 reissue) 2 Personnel 3 Charts

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by John Doe and Exene Cervenka except as indicated.

[edit] Side one

1. "The New World" – 3:25
2. "We're Having Much More Fun" – 3:05
3. "True Love" – 2:15
4. "Poor Girl" – 2:50
5. "Make the Music Go Bang" – 3:00
6. "Breathless" (Otis Blackwell) – 2:15
7. "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" – 4:10

[edit] Side two

1. "Devil Doll" – 3:05
2. "Painting the Town Blue" – 3:20
3. "Hot House" – 2:55
4. "Drunk in My Past" – 2:51
5. "I See Red" – 3:00
6. "True Love, Pt. #2" – 5:00

[edit] Bonus tracks (2002 reissue)

1. "Poor Girl" (Demo/Remix) – 2:58
2. "True Love, Pt. #2" (Demo/Remix) – 4:56
3. "Devil Doll" (Demo/Remix) – 3:12
4. "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" (Demo/Remix) – 5:45

[edit] Personnel

• Billy Zoom – guitar
• D.J. Bonebrake – drums, percussion
• Exene Cervenka – vocals
• John X. Doe – vocals, bass

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1983	Billboard Pop Albums	86
1983	The Billboard 200	86

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