Reason Why?

Reason Why?
Studio album by Angelic Upstarts
Released	1983
Genre	Punk rock, Oi!
Label	Anagram Records
Producer	Mond (Ray Cowie)
Angelic Upstarts chronology
Still from the Heart (1982) Reason Why? (1983) Last Tango in Moscow (1984)

Reason Why? is Angelic Upstarts's fifth album, released in 1983.^[1]

Track listing^[1]

All songs written by Thomas Mensforth and Ray Cowie, except where noted.

Side A

1. "Woman in Disguise"
2. "Never Give Up" (Mensforth, Cowie, Paul Thompson)
3. "Waiting, Hating"
4. "Reason Why" (Mensforth, Cowie, Paul Thompson)
5. "Nobody Was Saved"
6. "Geordies Wife" (Mensforth)
7. "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"

Side B

1. "42nd Street" (Mensforth, Tony Morrison)
2. "The Burglar" (Mensforth, Brian Hayes)
3. "Solidarity"
4. "As The Passion" (Mensforth, Brian Hayes)
5. "A Young Punk" (Mensforth, Brian Hayes)
6. "Where We Started"

Personnel

• Mensi - vocals
• Mond - guitar, vocals
• Brian Hayes - guitar
• Tony Feedback - bass
• Paul Thompson - guest drummer
• Peter Lambert - drums on "The Burglar" and "Where We Started"
• Robbie Garrette - keyboards
• Simon Lloyd - saxophone
• Kenny Mountain, Terry Sharpe, Terry Wilson-Slesser - backing vocals

References