
From the stacks
Sets (2), The
Vinyl Man And Others
Sets (2), The — Vinyl Man And Others, 1980. Verified release details and tracklist.
- Label
- Mad Enterprise
- Catalog
- 6846 072
- Year
- 1980
- Format
- Vinyl
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Listening notes
The Sets (2) released *Vinyl Man and Others* in 1980 on Mad Enterprise, catalog number 6846 072. The record is a three-track vinyl release comprising "Vinyl Man" on the A-side and "Don't Pretend" and "Now You're Gonna Meet Us" on the B-side.
The release sits at an intersection of several catalogued genres, including Electronic, Experimental, Industrial, Minimal, Psychedelic Rock, Punk, and Rock. That breadth of classification, whether applied retrospectively or at the time of release, places the record within a period when genre boundaries were being actively tested by small independent labels operating outside mainstream commercial channels. Mad Enterprise, as a label name, is consistent with the kind of DIY or micro-label infrastructure that characterized parts of the independent music landscape around 1980, though no additional verified information about the label is available here.
Track durations are not documented in the available source data, so the relative weight of each side cannot be assessed from the record's structural details alone. The A-side is given over entirely to "Vinyl Man," while the B-side is divided between two shorter or comparably sized pieces — though again, without confirmed timings, this remains inference rather than fact.
The self-referential quality of the title track's name, "Vinyl Man," is a documented textual detail worth noting for collectors and researchers cataloguing the release. Whether that title carried conceptual significance for the group is not established by the available facts.
This draft has not been independently verified and should be reviewed against primary sources before publication.
Tracklist
On the record
- AVinyl Man
- B1Don't Pretend
- B2Now You're Gonna Meet Us



