Bangles (EP)

Article summary

Bangles is the first EP by American pop rock band the Bangles. It was released in 1982 by Faulty Products and reissued in 1983 by I.R.S. Records when Faulty Products went out of business. The songs remained widely unavailable thereafter, with only occasional rereleases of individual songs. The whole five-song EP was eventually reissued as part of the Bangles' 2014 compilation, Ladies and Gentlemen... The Bangles!. This would be the group's only release to feature original bassist Annette Zilinskas, who left in early 1983 and was replaced by Michael Steele, and did not record with them again until the 2018 multigroup album 3 × 4. A three-song CD3 mini single version of the EP was released on A&M/I.R.S. Records in 1988.

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1. release date: 1982 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 1982 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 1982 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. release date: 1983 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333484654