Released after Magazine disbanded in 1981, After the Fact was designed as a career overview for its British release, collecting the group's singles and selected highlights from their four albums. In its American incarnation, After the Fact was radically different. Instead of functioning as an overview, it collected several B-sides, augmenting them with album tracks, and only a few of those overlapped with its U.K. counterpart. So, the British version (which has a green cover) is for the neophyte, and the American version (red cover) is for the collector, which is a strange state of affairs for this distinctly British post-punk band. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
After the Fact
01/01/1982


















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