Author: dannyno
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White Lines
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Instrumental outtake. Credit: Mark E. Smith/Simon Wolstencroft First released: “Oxymoron” (Receiver Records, 1997)
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ESP Disco
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Lyrics Psykick Dancehall Is there anybody there?Yeah!Rock Rock Rock Rock RockRock Rock Rock Rock RockRock Rock Rock Rock RockRocky! Rocky!Is quester psykick dancehallGet aboard for ESP medium discordMy garden is made of stoneThere’s a computer centre over the roadI saw a monster on the roofIts colours glowed on the roofRound the corner is quester psykick…
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Intro
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Lyrics We are The FallNorthern white crap that talks back We are not black, tallNo boxes for us Do not fuck usWe are frigid stars We were spitting, we were snapping “Cop out, cop out!”As in from heaven Commentary “The ‘White crap that talks back‘ thing was due to people in London being told that…
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Cary Grant’s Wedding
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Lyrics I said shut upEverybody go Cary Grant’s weddingEverybody go Cary Grant’s weddingChampagne hip hip hoorayThank you folks for coming todayHow much was the price of the Dodge?Sure it’s worth a whole lot moreI said go to Cary Grant’s weddingAll you folks and foolsCary Grant’s weddingCary Grant’s weddingCary Grant’s weddingCary Grant’s weddingAll you folks and…
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Spectre vs. Rector 2
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Lyrics M.R. James, vivant, vivant Yog Sothoth, Ray Milland Sludge hai choi choi choi son M.R. James, vivant, vivant Yog Sothoth, Ray MillandVan Greenway, R Corman Sludge hai choi choi choi sonPart one – spectre versus rectorThe rector lived in Hampshire The spectre was from Chorazina In evil dust in the airThe rector locked his…
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That Man
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Credited to Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon and Mark E. Smith. First released as a studio outtake on “Totale’s Turns” (1980). First live performance: Rock Garden, Middlesbrough, 4 November 1979.
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Stars on 45
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Lyrics Stars on 45 XXXX The Fall < not yet transcribed > Commentary < Post in progress > Arguably this song should be titled “C’n’C-Stars on 45”, since it is a variation on the brace of performances in which “Cash and Carry” acts as a prelude to something else – “Black Night” and “Hassle Schmuck”…
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Up Too Much
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Lyrics Not up to muchNot up to muchShe’s imitativeHer mind’s in piecesShe says we can’t all liveHer mind is in piecesShe says we can’t all live in semi-detached housesShe’s OedipusShe gets the checkFor car taxShe is OedipusShe gets the checkFor car taxWith barely a muttered thanksToo much Warehouse shop Too many fancy hatsClothes imitationA body…
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Three Points
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Middle Class Revolt – Simon, Dave & John
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Lyrics Middle Class Revolt Everything you see you wantGo to clubsMiddle class revoltMiddle class revoltPut it downPut it downHe wants Homestyle Sublimates the envy to C2sBump into each other and joltD2s, D1s, bump into each other and jolt A middle class revoltCalorificA middle class revoltA middle class revoltEverything you seeMiddle class revoltGo to clubsCrashing into…
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Glasgow Advice
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Passable
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Lyrics The Infotainment Scan Serial killers were always a bore in my bookAlong with Spangles and soccer booksRid us of old fogeys scuttling and swerving over the roadsComma, kids in pubsPassableWhy is Pete Gabriel always following us?PassableAnd before the grub comes a moralist Dissonance of infotainmentA past gone madAlive and well, he is on all…
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Outro [27 Points]
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Bounces – Leeds
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Lyrics The Dredger EP Dr Boring had a relationship with the drug company tooAnd I’m half-associated with the Softness Group PLCOn TV today somebody claimed their dog had been molested by a textile chemistBut life just bounces so don’t you get worried at allSometimes life just bounces so don’t you get worried at allThe prescription’s…
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Paranoid Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
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Lyrics Paranoid man in mid- thirties At the height of paranoiaAt the zenith of his powersBy bed replica shooterZenith dissolvingBy his bed replica shooterParanoid man in his early thirties, at the zenith of his powersWhen girls pass, puts head down, in the streetHis neighbours now are listening to thisShakes in the chemist’s while buying his…
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Prague ’91/Mr. Pharmacist
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Lyrics The Other Half Mr. PharmacistCan you help me out todayIn your usual lovely wayOh Mr. Pharmacist, I insistCan you give me something that will persistMr. PharmacistDear Pharmacist, won’t you pleaseGive me some energyMr. PharmacistMr. PharmacistHey Mr. PharmacistI’ll recommend you to my friendAnd they’ll be happy in the endOh Mr Pharmacist, can you helpAnd send…
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Glam-Racket/Star
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Lyrics Stop eating all that chocolate, eat salad instead In fact, you’re a halfwit from somewhere or otherWhy don’t you bog off back to Xanadu in IrelandGlam RickGlam Rick(Glam Rick)Don’t try to cheat me, I’m fragileYou hang around with camera crews in shell-suitsYou lecture on sweetsYou read Viz comicGlam Rick(Glam Rick)Glam Rick(Glam Rick)You are bequeathed…
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Hi-Tension Line
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Lyrics High tension line, step downHigh tension line, step downHigh tension line, step downHigh tension line, step downJeanette Fletcher is strange but not in a horrible wayAnd Michelle Spencer is this tight, come and hear her todayAnd see forty year olds in multicoloured shirts It never used to concern me, but now it’s making me…
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M.H.’s Jokes
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Intro – Roadhouse
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Ten Points
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Lyrics One: it’s up to you….. and nobody likes youWhy don’t you do us all a favour and bog off back to Xanadu in IrelandTwo:You hang around with camera crews in shellsuitsYou lecture on sweets and propose saladYou are coming round to Viz comicYou also make all history and related topics thematicThree:You are operation mindfuck…
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Idiot – Walk Out
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Lyrics Idiot groups with no shape or formOut of their heads on a quid of blowThe shapeless kecks flapping up a storm Look at what they are, a pack of wormsIdiot Joy ShowlandIdiot Joy ShowlandIdiot Joy ShowlandIdiot Joy ShowlandThe nylon leaves are fallingFrom the twisted shell of your craniumYour mystic jump-suits cannot hideYour competitive plagiarismIn…
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Boxoctosis Alarum
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Lyrics Land of bountyOpen the box, open the box Open the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the box of imperial stuffAnd to my surprise I found twenty-five warriorsWarriors, with shields Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!Open the box, open the boxOpen the goddam box!I opened the…
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Spoilt Victorian Childe
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Lyrics Past trees the fairies are flying Past trees with rose bushes inChild was spoilt VictoriaChild was spoilt VictoriaSpoilt Victorian childSpoilt Victorian childSpoilt Victorian childSugar and cakes appear mean, sitting at the tableTigers pop-up from booksSpoilt Victorian childSpoilt Victorian childSpoilt Victorian childLet’s take it ten years onYou’re looking back from thenUnder rough grey blanketsThread loose…
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Sparta F.C. No. 3
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Lyrics Sparta 2# (US album version) XXXX UK album version Come on I will show you how I will changeWhen you give me something to slaughterShepherd boy, heyHey!Everybody sing, heyHey!Better act quick, heyHey!Be my toyCome on have a betWe live on bloodWe are Sparta F.C.I don’t have a jackknife it went up the hillI don’t…
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Wrong Place
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Lyrics Wrong place, right timeI used to think I could do what I wanted toRight time for me aloneI walk the streets of complete full homesWrong place, but I’m bound to stick with what I intend to see throughSee you, in wrong placeRight time but there’s miles in betweenI keep on knocking but there’s no…
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Green-Eyed Snorkel
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Lyrics Iodeo (demo version) I was doing the (deed)All the toughs, hip, the (wait)I felt good in my hoodIt was a night of the howling matesNight of the housematesI felt good in my red hoodI felt so deep within my red hoodA tin bottomed (sea bottom) came outSerpentine in a marble (sepulchre)Chasing me up the…
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All Clasp Hands
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Lyrics Peel Session version We’re going down to SkagaströndN.Y.C.And God put it hereClasp handsWell, I went out the night before lastI saw a queue outsideClasp handsAnd they didI was empoweredAnd the empowerment made me gentle in my baldnessI was so gladIt was part of the job club Fulfilled, I wasOver the death march of the…
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Jet Plane
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Lyrics Diane Worstock and Dr Geoffrey Henning first came up with their innovative new idea whilst standing in an airline queue of all places(On the Milan to London flight on a cold Italian [ ] their London flight had been delayed by two hours)Standing in the queue, who would’ve thought that this innovative new idea…
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Auto (2014) Chip Replace
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Lyrics Suffering away ay aySufferingSuffering away ay aySufferingSuffering away ay aySufferingSuffering away ay aySufferingTwo oh one four!Suffering away ay aySuffering away ay aySufferingSufferingSufferingSufferingTwo oh one fourHe sees life through a cracked chipHe sees life through a twenty fourteen chipInternal medicineHow bad English musicianTwo oh one four descendingHow bad are English musiciansHe sees life through a…
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Wings (With Bells)
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Lyrics Day by day the moon gains on meDay by day the moon gains on mePurchased a pair of flabby wingsI took to doing some hoveringThere is a list of incorrect thingsHovered mid-air outside a studyAn academic kneaded his chinSat in the dust of some cheap magazinesHis academic rust could not burn them upRecruited some…
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The Caterer
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Lyrics And dad will keep you warmAnd mam will keep you warmAnd in the smashStick with me, stick with meI am the catererI am the catererI am the catererI deal chips from the leftChicken and chips off the boneI offer all on the menuStick with me, stick with meI am your catererI am your catererI…
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Pearson’s Revenge
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Classical Gas
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Backdrop
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Lyrics The Leicester YOP TEP instructor emerged from corridorHis state subsidised cannabis hazeMoved reptilian in its all levelling routineI said to him, it’s about time you started thinking about the black dog on your backI said, it’s about time you started thinking about the re-run which is your lifeMoveable backdropThe Leicester YOP instructor emerged from…
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Groovin’ with Mr. Bloe
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John Peel session track. Recorded on 19 February 2003. Broadcast 13 March 2003.
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Hungry Freaks, Daddy
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Lyrics Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Mister AmericaWalk on byYour schools that do not teachMister AmericaWalk on byThe minds that won’t be reachedMister AmericaTry to hideThe emptiness that’s you insideWhen once you find that the way you liedAnd all the corny tricks you triedWill not forestall the rising tide ofHungry freaks, daddy…They won’t…
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The City Never Sleeps
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Lyrics Nancy Sinatra (The City Never Sleeps at Night) Old man, young manPreacher saying amenTaking up collectionPlaying on a bass drumHow come the city it never sleeps at nightRed cars, blue carsPayment overdue carsCops with indigestionBillionaires and some bumsHow come the city it never sleeps at nightHow come the city it never sleeps at nightShort…
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Surrogate Mirage
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Lyrics [Can you give them lights a rest, a bit of a rest for a bit…we’re sweating too much…haven’t done any work yet…hullo Karl]This regards parting, leavingBecause art of bleedingRaw pumpings of emotionYour chummy lifestyle sits on my veinAnd not that I botherSurrogates always give up, persistent cracks11pm is when those people recedeThey get you…
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Numb at the Lodge
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Lyrics Numb at the Lodge (Peel Session version) XXXX Feeling Numb Post- festivities, I’m feeling numb nowFrom remedies and ProzacI’m kinda two-toneI’m feeling numb nowI’m feeling numbI’m feeling numb nowI’m feeling numbProzacDon’t touch that phone dialStick with kindredWelcome in, I’m on automationAnd family is cerebral causticI’m feeling numb nowI’m feeling numbI’m feeling numb I’m feeling…
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Jeanie
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Lyrics Eddie Cochran (Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie) Well, Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie, come and dance with meWell, I’ll teach you every dance from across the seaYeah, first we’ll hopYeah, yeah, yeah, then we’ll bopYeah, yeah, yeah, then we’ll slop, rock and roll, well, do the strollWell, Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie, got my blue suede shoesA pink carnation and…
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The Legend of Xanadu
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Lyrics Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich Esta es la leyenda de Xanadu You’ll hear my voice, on the wind, ‘cross the sandIf you should returnTo that black barren land that bears the name of XanaduCursed without hope, was the love that I soughtLost from the startWas the duel that was s’pposed to win…
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Faust Banana
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Lyrics (Yeah … Yeah)Doctor Faustus, horseshoes splackingSwallows hay cart, cart horse, of the peasants blocking his path(Yeah)Doctor Faustus, power showing, spits out hay cart, cart horse, hay and box (Yeah)Outside the gates of the town of Anholt (Had your chances … you’ve had your chance)(You’ve had your chances … you’ve had your chance)(Yeah)Doctor Faustus, at…
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Cock in My Pocket
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Lyrics The Stooges I got my cock in my pocket and I’m breezin’ down the old highwayI got my cock in my pocket, I’m breezin’ down the old highwayI’m gonna whip it on you, honey, I’m gonna whip it on you todayI’m gonna get it up, turn around, try it every way, uhI got my…
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Perverted by Language
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Lyrics A final curly boxYou have no drums to relateUnion grey vaseYou are grey vaseLook upDetractedWhat withAttractedLanguageThe mandrake runnersA final pearled vaseUnion great vase Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links
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Blue Christmas
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Lyrics Elvis Presley (Billy Hayes / Jay W. Johnson) I’ll have a blue Christmas without youI’ll be so blue just thinking about youDecorations of red on a green Christmas treeWon’t be the same dear, if you’re not here with meAnd when those blue snowflakes start fallingThat’s when those blue memories start callingYou’ll be doing all…
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The Love Between
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Lyrics White Fence April come and weigh a tonMany hate the alphabetYou keepInsideCan you do right?Can you be right next to me?I think it’s more about the love betweenWaking upGo to workJoin the raceTimes are badMake or takeYour time in spaceTake a restOn your plainTake a V ride you’ll never forgetAnd i think that your…
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Jack the Ripper
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Lyrics Screaming Lord Sutch (Stacy, Stacy, Haggin, Simmons) Ah-ha-ha, aaah!(The Ripper, Jack the Ripper)(The Ripper, Jack the Ripper)There’s a man who walks the streets of London late at night(The Ripper, Jack the Ripper)With a little black bag that’s oh-so tight(The Ripper, Jack the Ripper)He’s got a big black cloak hangin’ down his back(The Ripper, Jack…
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Werewolves of London
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Lyrics Warren Zevon I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his handWalking through the streets of SoHo in the rainHe was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook’sGonna get a big dish of beef chow meinAh-hoo, werewolves of LondonAh-hooAh-hoo, werewolves of LondonAh-hooYou hear him howlin’ around your kitchen doorYou better not let…