Avoid Freud

rdf:langString Avoid Freud

rdf:langString Avoid Freud

rdf:langString Carole Pope and Kevan Staples

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rdf:langString August – September 1980

rdf:langString Rolling Stone

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rdf:langString Hostage

rdf:langString I Can't Take It

rdf:langString Emotional Blackmail

rdf:langString Fashion Victim

rdf:langString Grade B Movie

rdf:langString It's a Jungle

rdf:langString Lie Back, Let Me Do Everything

rdf:langString Physical Violence

rdf:langString What's the Furor About the Führer?

rdf:langString Avoid Freud is the second album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands). It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian RPM Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. (Inferred from archive listing for following week.) The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the CRIA on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year. The first single released from the album was the controversial "What's The Furor About The Führer?" b/w "Fashion Victim" (True North TN4-157), the latter track becoming the larger hit, reaching #25 in Canada on the National Top 50 Singles Chart on February 7, 1981 and #3 on the RPM CANCON Chart the following week. The album's most famous single, however, is "High School Confidential" (b/w "Grade B Movie", True North TN4-159), which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism. The influential Toronto radio station CHUM-FM paid for the band to record a cleaned-up version that avoided the line, "She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way." It reached #1 on the RPM CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.