Tracklist

A1	Like Clockwork
A2	Blind Date
A3	(I Never Loved) Eva Braun
A4	Living In An Island
A5	Don't Believe What You Read
B1	She's So Modern
B2	Me And Howard Hughes
B3	Can't Stop
B4	(Watch Out For) The Normal People
B5	Rat Trap

Companies, etc.

• Published By – Sewer Fire Hits
• Published By – Zomba
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Ensign Records
• Licensed Through – Phonogram
• Recorded At – Relight Studios
• Printed By – Clout & Baker Ltd.
• Pressed By – Phonodisc Ltd.
• Lacquer Cut At – Phonodisc Ltd.

Credits

• Design, Artwork By – Hothouse
• Engineer – Stuff Brown, Tim Friese-Greene
• Lacquer Cut By – JA*
• Management – Fachtna O'Kelly
• Painting – Chuck Loyola
• Photography By [Front, Back Cover & Portraits] – Fin Costello
• Photography By [Words & Faces, Group Shots & Robbie] – Chalkie Davies
• Producer – Arrjay "Mutt" Lange*

Notes

This version is on a green label. Issued in a single sleeve complete with a printed lyric inner sleeve.
Was also issued with
A Tonic For The Troops green labels with no track listing on rear of sleeve, and
A Tonic For The Troops white background labels.

Recorded at Relight Studios, Holland.

℗ 1978 Ensign Records.
Printed in England.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Label side A): ENVY 3.1
• Matrix / Runout (Label side B): ENVY 3.2
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A etched, all variants): DUN LAOGHAIRE RC-JA
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B etched, all variants): WESSEX WIZARDS RC-JA
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A stamped var 1): ENVY 3 1Y//1∇420 04 1 3 1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B stamped var 1): ENVY 3 2Y//1∇420 04 12 7
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A stamped var 2): ENVY 3 1Y//1∇420 04 1 4 2
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B stamped var 2): ENVY 3 2Y//1∇420 04 11 2 4
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A stamped var 3): ENVY 3 1Y//1∇420 04 12
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B stamped var 3): ENVY 3 2Y//1∇420 04 1 1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A stamped var 4): ENVY 3 1Y//1∇420 04 13 15
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B stamped var 4): ENVY 3 2Y//1∇420 04 11 11
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A stamped var 5): ENVY 3 1Y//2∇420 04 14 2
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B stamped var 5): ENVY 3 1Y//2∇420 04 13 15
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A stamped var 6): ENVY 3 1Y//2∇420 04 13 1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B stamped var 6): ENVY 3 1Y//2∇420 04 13 5

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ENVY 3	The Boomtown Rats	A Tonic For The Troops ‎(LP, Album)	Ensign	ENVY 3	UK	1978
6310 954	The Boomtown Rats	A Tonic For The Troops ‎(LP, Album)	Mercury	6310 954	Australia	1978
6310 954	The Boomtown Rats	A Tonic For The Troops ‎(LP, Album)	Mercury, Ensign	6310 954	New Zealand	1978
SRM-1-3751	The Boomtown Rats	A Tonic For The Troops ‎(LP, Album)	Mercury, Ensign	SRM-1-3751	Canada	1978
JCA 35750	The Boomtown Rats	A Tonic For The Troops ‎(8-Trk, Album)	Columbia	JCA 35750	US	1979

Alsantrius

I have a very cryptic edition of this. It's signed "all the best, R. Oakley" on the front (?) and has "yaemo" on the back in marker five times ???? Interested to know the story behind it, probably just someone messing around?

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