Nothing Can Stop Us Release group by Robert Wyatt. Overview; Aliases; Tags; Details; Edit; Album + Compilation. Release Format Tracks. Nothing Can Stop Us: CD. Nothing Can Stop Us Robert Wyatt Alternative 1982 Preview SONG TIME Born Again Cretin. 3:13 PREVIEW At Last I Am Free. 4:20 PREVIEW Caimanera. He signed to indie ' Rough Trade ' in 1980, releasing a number of singles prior to his comeback album ' NOTHING CAN STOP US NOW ' (1982). This featured his classy re-working of ELVIS COSTELLO and CLIVE LANGER's ' SHIPBUILDING '. In 1983, through constant airplay by Radio 1 DJ JOHN PEEL, the anti-Falklands war song gained a Top 40 placing.

Nothing Can Stop Us is a compilation album by Robert Wyatt released in 1982.

Concept[edit]

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.

Release[edit]

In America, Nothing Can Stop Us was released on CD paired with Old Rottenhat under the title Compilation.

Reception and later recordings[edit]

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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.

Track listing[edit]

1. 'Born Again Cretin' (Robert Wyatt) – 3:10
2. 'At Last I Am Free' (Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards) – 4:17
3. 'Caimanera' (Carlos Puebla, Joseíto Fernández) - 5:18
4. 'Grass' (Ivor Cutler) – 2:39
5. 'Stalin Wasn't Stallin'' (Willie Johnson) – 3:22
6. 'Shipbuilding' (Elvis Costello, Clive Langer) - 3:06 (Bonus track added to reissues)
7. 'Red Flag' (Traditional) – 3:09
8. 'Strange Fruit' (Lewis Allan)– 3:37
9. 'Arauco' (Violeta Parra) – 4:35
10. 'Trade Union' (Abdus Salique) – 3:44
11. 'Stalingrad' (Peter Blackman) – 5:46

Personnel[edit]

• Robert Wyatt - vocals
• Mogotsi Mothle - double bass on 'At Last I Am Free' and 'Strange Fruit'
• Frank Roberts - keyboards on 'At Last I Am Free' and 'Strange Fruit'
• Bill MacCormick - bass on 'Caimanera' and 'Arauco'
• Harry Beckett - flugelhorn on 'Caimanera'
• Kadir Durvesh - shehnai on 'Grass' and 'Trade Union'
• Esmail Shek - tabla on 'Grass' and 'Trade Union'

Album cover[edit]

The sleeve artwork is by Wyatt's wife Alfreda Benge.

References[edit]

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