Nothing Can Stop Us (album)
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| Compilation album by Robert Wyatt | ||||
| Released | March 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1980-1981 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, pop rock | |||
| Length | 39:51 | |||
| Label | Rough Trade | |||
| Producer | various | |||
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| Robert Christgau | B+ link |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.4/10.0) link |
Nothing Can Stop Us is a compilation album by Robert Wyatt released in 1982.
Consisting primarily of tracks released as singles and B-sides during the late 1970s and early '80s, it only contains one Wyatt composition (the opening track "Born Again Cretin"). The rest of the songs are cover versions, a selection of musically and thematically disparate songs by a very varied collection of original artists, including Ivor Cutler, 1940s protest songs, Billie Holiday, "The Red Flag", and Spanish-language numbers (including a version of "Caimanera/Guantanamera"). There is a rendition of Chic's "At Last I Am Free". The two songs not issued as singles are "Born Again Cretin" (taken from an NME compilation cassette) and "The Red Flag" (which was previously unreleased.) This was the only full-length LP released by Wyatt in the ten years between 1975's Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard and his fourth solo studio album Old Rottenhat.
In America, Nothing Can Stop Us was released on CD paired with Old Rottenhat under the title Compilation.
The song "Born Again Cretin" is sampled in the 1999 Italian single "Re-Born Again Cretin" by Almamegretta/Dub Colossus, featuring the vocals of Julianna, which originally appeared on the 1998 album Robert Wyatt e Noi - The Different You, a compilation on CPI Records.
The sleeve drawing was by Wyatt's wife Alfreda Benge.
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