Pete Shelley – Homosapien

To celebrate Pride Month, I created a 'Time Travelling Show Special: 20 Queer 80s Hits' (in chronological order) and "Homosapien" was very much on the setlist! https://mixcloud.com/ZoeMak/time-travelling-20-queer-80s-hits-for-pride-2022

Brilliant, punchy and unique. Great party song and no surprise used on movie soundtrack set in the 80s.

On my copy of this, hand timed from vinyl, the durations are as follows: side a 4:35, side b 9:12

Like his earlier buzzcocks work SO SO SO far ahead of the curve - Electronic Dance Dub music in 1981 - Martin Rushent clearly a massive enabler here but Shelly put his equally large creative stamp on the work. Listen to 'Electroclash' and realise it took some more than two decades to catch up still spins well today although a cheeky re-edit needed by the working DJ in order to be coherent arrangement for todays dance floors.

You're damn right about that. Martin Rushent did the production but I dunno who did the mix. It's absolutely blinding.

was there perhaps a 3rd RP not listed? this 12" is listed as such:

Side 1 1. Homosapien (Dance Version)
*2.Love In Vain runout stamped TOWN HOUSE 12 WIP 6720 B - 2U then there's 1 sideways stamped

Side 2 Homosapien (Elongated Dancepartydubmix) runout stamped TOWN HOUSE 12 WIP 6720 B - 1U then there's 82 sideways stamped
Same cover

The 'Homosapien (Elongated Dancepartydubmix Version)' is a fantastic punk/funk/disco tune - timeless stuff that still gets them up and on the floor.