group was about. Rev described the album cover as having a disco music style. Rev felt that Zilkha was moving Ze Records into a dance music style and tried to tone down the amount of blood and gore on the album cover as much as possible. Release Prior to the album's release, Suicide released a non-album single titled "Dream Baby Dream" in November 1979. The album was released in May 1980 under the title Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev. Alan Vega stated that there were problems with the distribution of the album. The album was re-issued by Mute Records on compact disc on January 18, 2000. The release was titled The Second Album and featured three extra songs: "Super Subway Comedian", "Dream Baby Dream", and "Radiation". The second disc consisted of live material recorded in New York City at the Museum for Living Artists in 1975. Reception At the end of 1980, Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev was listed as one of the year's best albums by the NME. In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Andy Kellman said of the album: "Perhaps it's not as renegade as Suicide, but it's an arguably better, more realized work, and just as essential". Selects Ian Johnston, reviewing the Blast First re-issue, said that the album was "unjustly less celebrated" and sounded "remarkably like contemporary electronica", referring to it as "a timeless recording". British music magazine Fact placed the record at number 79 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s, referring to it as an "astonishing album, which simply refuses to age". Legacy Alan Vega felt that "nothing big for us happened" after the second album was released in comparison to the first album. Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev was a big influence on electronic music in the United Kingdom. Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream said he "loved the album right from the start", feeling that it predated house music. Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees stated that "everything about [the album] is perfect... it would be up there with my top ten favourite albums. It's that good." Track listing All songs written by Martin Rev and Alan Vega. Side one "Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne" – 3:21 "Mr. Ray (to Howard T.)" – 5:14 "Sweetheart" – 3:37 "Fast Money Music" – 3:08 "Touch Me" – 4:24 Side two "Harlem" – 6:38 "Be Bop Kid" – 2:13