Lyrics
First moth, we got ze answer
Glycerine, all day, skin
Bug day
Bug day
Bug day
Midges
Midges hovered over the heather
Three moths shivered
Green moths shivered
Cockroaches mouldered in the ground
Tonguehorns belched fire
Bug day
Bug day
So, fleeing at sea
Terrors hit water
Minoa said "eek"
Minoa said "eek"
Sea reaffirms some things
We learned some things
People behave very wrong
Create company
Green is starboard, back
Left is port, there
Old continental women
Coffee cups poised on front
Facing up to the sea is a very hard thing
Facing up to sea is a v hard thing
Anything is better than bug day
Bug day
Bug day
Bug day
Bug day
Bug day
Anything is better than bug day
Bug day
Bug day
Commentary
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BUG DAY
– These things wanted rights and tenancy, Govt. sponsored bands – of course it all stemmed from the Nip Insect Glorification craze – the tinned bean diet for Spiders just about sealed it …
From the sleevenotes to The Wonderful and Frightening World Of… (1984).
“Bug Day” was never played live.
I seem to remember this was improvised live.
Brix Smith Start (@Brixsmithstart), during the @Tim_Burgess curated TWAFWOTF ##timstwitterlisteningparty on 2nd April 2020. [Link to Twitter/X]
Again Leckie just gets the most amazing sound layers here. He is a sound sculpted. [sic]
Mark told me to do some drums that were completely random. After I’d done it he said they were too random – so I had to overdub a more regular pattern. And that’s life in The Fall in a nutshell.
Paul Hanley (@HanleyPa), on Twitter, during the @Tim_Burgess curated TWAFWOTF ##timstwitterlisteningparty, 2nd April 2020. [Link to Twitter/X]
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Bug Day” [Archived]
- Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
- Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
- Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
- Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]
- The Track Record: “Bug Day”
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