Even Cud fans will struggle to get their hands on this barnstorming effort as it never featured on any of the band’s albums. Mike Dunphy’s liquid guitar play is the song’s central feature; at one point the spiraling dynamics threaten to simulate a fractious riot. Carl Puttnam’s heavy-toned vocals are refreshing, his verbals matching his colleague for sheer energy. It scraped into the top 50 settling at 49 in the UK singles chart.
Oh No Won’t Do was their first release with A&M records and probably Cud thought that they would leave indie obscurity behind them now that they were with a major label. It barely made the charts despite radio airplay. There was some interesting marketing with this single and I did buy the numbered 7″ boxed 4 track EP that played at 33+1⁄3 rpm, it came with some Cud stickers and a map of the world according to Cud.
In my research for this post I did come across another blog post that said that the record cover was taken from polariods Carl Puttnam and Steve Goodwin took at Carl’s house. Looking at the sleeve I find this hard to believe, this is a designed sleeve. I don’t think A&M would let two band members and a polariod create a record sleeve.
Lastly, we all know Cud are partial to a cover version, they proved this with Hot Chocolate’s You Sexy Thing and The Kinks Lola. This EP concludes with a cover of The Everly Brothers’ Price of Love.
Oh No Won’t Do
Profession
Ariel
Price of Love
I was a Teenage Shoegazer 
Never got into Cud but remember then very well. This era of music knew how to package singles, even if it coincided with the profit maximising multi format, and on the whole singles we’re usually a couple of quid. Compare that with 7in singles now which are around £10 +.