Tattooed Beat Messiah

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Tattooed Beat Messiah
Studio album by Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
Released	February 16, 1988
Recorded	1987
Length	41:15
Label	Vertigo
Producer	Bill Drummond and David Balfe
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction chronology
High Priest of Love (EP) (1986) Tattooed Beat Messiah (1988) Hoodlum Thunder (1991)

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Tattooed Beat Messiah is the 1988 debut full-length studio release by Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction. Engineered by Femi Jiya and Mark Freegard. Mixed by Nigel Green. The album reached #132 on the US Billboard 200 and #20 on the UK album charts in March 1988 supported by music videos for the "Prime Mover" (single, April 1987), "Backseat Education" (single, October 1987, UK #49), and "Planet Girl" (single, March 1988, UK #63). Tracks included on the album that had been released in 1987 were remixed for inclusion on the album.^[2] "Prime Mover" would be the band's most successful single reaching #18 on the UK singles charts in May 1987,^[3] well in advance of the eventual album release. The single also charted in New Zealand hitting #12.^[4]

The album was reissued in January 1998 as "The Best of Zodiac Mindwarp" including the "Born To Be Wild" track. Rock Candy Records ^[5] issued a 24-bit remastered version of the album in August 2007 including the 9 tracks that had originally been used as singles B-sides.