Loved this album, needs to be on a CD...I still have a tape copy from the 80's. Don't know if I still have the vinyl...think I lent it to a college buddy back then...but I always taped them and listened to tapes...ahhh the days when a Walkman was HIGH Tech.

Can always burn it onto CD from the fine vinyl, which is what I've done. Then transfer to the ol' iPod and somehow what kept you alive in 1986 is still mysteriously doing its important work in 2012.

Another vote for a CD release of this great album which I listened to via a tape a mate recorded from his album in the late 80s early 90s, until it was stolen from my car ... BUGGER.

Hi. Dunno who actually reads this cyberbabble, but I thought I'd give the written word a try. I Met Mr. Pat Fish & Max Eider several moons ago in Chapel Hill, NC. (I arranged the sneaky surprise with David J before the show.) ANYHOOOOOOO, one question: can you PLEASE either release "Bloody Nonsense" or kill me now?! Just let me know which to expect. Thanks. x to the o

I sat in my 79' Nova listening to this tape on my lunch break almost every day. The tape got eaten by my player. I loved this tape. For the love of all that is conspiratorial release it on CD!!!

please release Bloody nonsense on CD, I have many of your albums on CD and it is a shame that this wonderful compilation hasnt joined them in my collection. I have a cassette version. Also anyone know where there are CD copies of A gift of Music parts I & II?

Now that I have had various songs from this stuck in my head on and off for the last few months I really need you to release this on CD. Begging is not something I usually stoop to but this would be worth it. Please. Please. Pretty pretty pretty pretty please. One little CD release.
Please?

Ummm, yeah, we're going to need you to release Bloody Nonsense on CD, OK? Yeah... OK. Good talk, good talk.

PS: I understand the reasons for not releasing it on CD before (not the dumb ones, but the ones that used to make sense), but it's 2009 now. So... off you go.

My mate gave me a tape of this in the late 80s he recorded off his album. What a great set of tracks - it disappeared when my car was burgled mid-90s and I've never been the same since. CD ?

I had Bloody Nonsense on cassette.
Played it all summer (1986) long. Somehow it got away from me. Finally I decided to go on one last search through my stuff. I was on a mission! After an hour or so, I found a bag with a bunch of old tapes in it. And there it was...or so I thought.The case was empty!!!!!
Please release this on CD!

Bloody nonsense, bloody 'ell - the world, not too mention me, needs this one now!

OK and blah blah. This is the JB album that so many of us heard first. Can someone kindly explain why it is impossible to release this on CD? I know it is a compilation but so what?! So is Abba Gold and I see that shit everywhere. Just put it out -- charge $20 bucks if you want to. I am so tired of playing my LP once a year to keep it from wearing out too soon. I got $20 -- and I am dying to give it to the JB in exchange for this CD. Make it happen, Powers That Be and I'll get off my soapbox about why in God's name this record is like the only one never printed on CD in the entire history of CDs.

When will this great album be released on CD? My sister stole my LP years ago and I just want this on CD

HELP! Where can get a copy.....preferably CD? Nowhere to be found....I've been trying for over 15 years.

I fell in love with Bloody Nonsense when it was introduced to me as a 14 yr old, living in Toronto. My pal Ian got turned onto the album (vinyl was still the thing then to a greater degree) and it was he in turn that made me listen to it. I was immediately fascinated with the bizarre lyrical content as well as being drawn to the infectious melodies.

It's hard to pick one track over another in terms of a personal favourite, but I still catch myself now and again humming "Human Jungle", "Death Dentist", or "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" (which I didn't know was originally titled "Ronald Regan's ..." in reference to the downing of KAL 007 over the Soviet Union back in the good ol' Cold War days).

This album has staying power. It had a huge influence on me as an aspiring singer/songwriter and its reverberations echo still.

I'd love to see you visit Toronto Pat. I never had the pleasure back in the day. If you need a local opening act ... www.myspace.com/leviride

Cheers

I have the American tape and it lists it as:

Side One:
The Human Jungle
Southern Mark Smith
President Reagan's Birthday Present
Jazz Buthcher vs. Prime Minister
Partytime
Grooving in the Bus Lane
Count Dracula

Side Two:
Death Dentist
Big Saturday
Caline Wheeler's Birthday Present
Drink
Rain
The Devil is my Friend
Real Men

AllMusic.com lists it as:

The Human Jungle
Southern Mark Smith
Real Men
Soul Happy Hour
Hard
Water
Death Dentist
Big Saturday
Caline Wheeler's Birthday Present
Partytime
Girlfriend
Grooving in the Bus Lane
The Devil is my Friend

Pretty different lineup from (what I'm assuming is) the Canadian
release. I hope this helps figure something out.

Yes, I know the story. Dave Barker at Glass signed separate
licensing deals with Big Time in the USA and Polygram in
Canada. Polygram were almost unique among Canadian majors
at the time, inasmuch as they weren't just run as a minor
appendage of the American parent company but actually had a
policy of their own. Astonishingly, this involved signing the JBC,
as two of the A&R staff up at Polygram had taken a severe shine
to the band. Because of their own personal tastes and, perhaps,
a better understanding of the market in the Great White North,
they changed the tracklisting for the Bloody Nonsense
compilation. Basically, the version with the mauve cover is the
American issue, the one with the rather nicer deep blue cover
the Canadian. The US version features the bouncy 45 version of
Southern Mark Smith with Kevin on the drums and Rolo on the
bass, whereas the Canadian version features the "Big Return"
mix from the Scandal in Bohemia LP with Kevin's brother David
on the bass and Owen on the drums. So there you have it: two
nations, two versions of the same record, two different members
of Bauhaus. The history of the JBC is rich and strange.

The songs on my copy of Bloody Nonsense do not match what this website claims is the list of songs on this album. Apparently there were at least two versions of this album produced. Does anyone know what the story is on this?

My boyfriend taped this for me back when I was at McGill University in Montreal (Canada) in 1986. Haven't listened to it in years, but reading the lyrics to "Big Saturday" made my stomach go all funny, thinking about that wonderful time in my life. A bloody great album.

I am the lucky one I guess. this album was my first jazz butcher I ever heard. my favorite record store owner played it for me in the 80's, and I got a copy. since then I got another to hold on to for when mine wore out, as well as the beat up copy I first heard. I also found an import version with a blue cover and different songs I snatched up. so I have 4 copies in one form or another, and it's the first I will burn to cd for my own personal car use.

Lost my tape of this brilliant record on a 24-hour bus ride from Airlie Beach to Melbourne in 1990. I have been crying ever since....

I can add to the sadness: Haven't heard the album in years, and I agree it is a freaking great album. I actually owned it twice...both times on cassette. One melted on my dashboard in Tucson, AZ. The other (bought days after the first one melted) remains at large somewhere in...I believe...the collection of someone who does not return things they borrow...

I took a trip to victoria bc and found bloody nonsense on vinyl. It was a sweeeet find to say the least. I also recently purchased draining the glass, the 82-86 compilation. The search for hamburg continues however. I have a lead in vermont and am awaiting a reply. Cmon Pat you must have a copy laying around lol.

Long ago, I filched the cassette from the record store I was working at. I can't remeber how I first came to notice JB, but this quickly became a staple of my rotation of 'clever albums no one heard of'. I don't recall ever meeting anyone who enjoyed it as much as me. I bought other JB albums, and while OK, none of them approached "Bloody Non-Sense".

This is without a doubt the best fucking album ever recorded. Notice I say album and not CD, godamit. My best memory of this album is wandering around Pikes Place Market in Seattle on a bright windy day, trying to ditch my parents, loving being alive, listening to bloody nonesent on my slightly battered walkman and wondering just what the fuck WAS Caroline Wheeler's birthday present. Ah, but I don't really want to know... it's like a Fellini movie, you don't really understand what the fuck that crazy Italion devil was trying to say but you wanted to watch the movie over and over and over anyway.

I still have the cassette but it is in rough shape. I also have Hamburg on vinyl but it is near death. This music still means alot to me. I saw him live back in these days and would love to again!

Just wanted to add my name to the list of saddened folks that can't get a copy Bloody Nonsense. Loved it back in school. Not a trace now (sniffle, tear).

is there not anyone who knows how to get these cd's?????

I have been looking for a CD version of this release for quite some time now. I have never really been a strong supporter of napster but i was able to download every single song from this CD. I just completed my last download (Rain)

I was hoping there'd be cache of Bloody Nonsenses somewhere under the sun, but the rest of the writers seem to be in the same dilemma. You hear an album in college, you borrow it from a friend and tape it onto a cheaperino C-60, and you intend, intend, intend to buy your own copy someday. 14 years later, you're still singing "Soul Happy Hour" in the shower and wondering if that damn records on CD yet!