| Rotund for Success | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Severed Heads |
| Cover: | RotundForSuccess.jpg |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Recorded: | 1988 |
| Genre: | EDM, synth-pop |
| Length: | 49:54 |
| Label: | Nettwerk Volition Records |
| Producer: | Tom Ellard, Robert Racic |
| Prev Title: | Bad Mood Guy |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Cuisine (With Piscatorial) |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Rotund for Success is a studio album by the Australian electronic music group Severed Heads, released in 1989.[1] Three singles were released from the album: "Greater Reward", "All Saints Day" and "Big Car", the first two reaching the top 30 on Billboards Dance Club Songs chart.[2] Much like the rest of the band's discography, the album has been issued many times in several formats through a variety of labels.
Trouser Press wrote that "[Tom] Ellard’s lyrical sensibility is typically off-kilter and flashes of a twisted mind do erupt now and again in the mix, but the diminution of musical disturbance and the elimination of the band’s creative challenge is most disturbing."[3] Option wrote that "each song has a catchy simple melody defined by a 'cheap & nasty synthesizer with knobs.'"[4]
2021 Medical Records 2LP reissue
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | Release Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1989 | Nettwerk | LP | W1-30035 | First vinyl pressing | |
| Volition Records | VOLT 028 | |||||
| North America | Nettwerk | CS | W4-30035 | First cassette pressing, same track list as the vinyl edition | ||
| CD | W2-30035 | First CD pressing, includes two extra tracks not included on the vinyl and cassette editions | ||||
| Europe | Volition Records | VOLT 028 | ||||
| Australia | 2002 | Sevcom | CD-R | N/A | Sevcom CD-R reissue, includes four extra tracks, including the 1989 CD edition bonus tracks | |
| United Kingdom | 2004 | LTM | CD | LTMCD 2404 | LTM CD reissue, includes three extra tracks plus the 1989 CD edition bonus tracks | |
| United States | 2021 | Medical Records | 2LP | MR-089 | Expanded version, with several bonus tracks from previous (re)issues, plus two 12" single remixes |