Pigs on Purpose

Pigs on Purpose
Studio album by
Released1982
Recorded6–8 September 1982
StudioOutlaw Studios, Birmingham
GenrePost-punk
Length40:37 (original UK release
59:26 (2004 re-release)
LabelCherry Red
ProducerRichard Strange
The Nightingales chronology
Pigs on Purpose
(1982)
Hysterics
(1983)
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Pigs on Purpose is the first studio album released by British post-punk band The Nightingales. It was released in 1982 through the Cherry Red record label and was distributed by Pinnacle. The album reached #15 in the UK Indie Chart.

James Robert wrote that the album was "a summation of their live set", but "let down by a flat production that didn't do justice to the duelling guitar thrust". Stewart Lee in 2004 wrote in The Sunday Times that it "is the CD reissue of the year".