“All Touch” by Rough Trade

"All Touch" was the song that took Rough Trade furthest, the Canadian new wave band's biggest hit, pulled from their third album, For Those Who Think Young, in 1981. Carole Pope and Kevan Staples wrote it, and Staples produced it with Gene Martynec, with Gary Gray engineering. It climbed to 12 on the RPM singles chart at home, and to 2 on the CANCON listing, then crossed the border as a single on Boardwalk in 1982 and reached 58 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album was originally going to be called for those who think jung. In Canada the single came in a picture sleeve on True North, backed with "Baptism of Fire"; the American pressing swapped in "The Sacred and the Profane".

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