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Albums (and Slates)
Live at the Witch Trials
Dragnet
Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Slates
Hex Enduction Hour
Room to Live
Perverted by Language
The Wonderful and Frightening World of…
This Nation’s Saving Grace
Bend Sinister
The Frenz Experiment
Bremen Nacht Run Out 7″
The Frenz Experiment – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
I am Kurious Oranj
I am Kurious Oranj – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Extricate
Extricate – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Shift-Work
Shift-Work – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Code: Selfish
The Infotainment Scan
The Infotainment Scan – CD bonus tracks
Middle Class Revolt
Cerebral Caustic
The Light User Syndrome
Levitate
Limited Edition Bonus CD
The Marshall Suite
Limited Edition LP bonus track
The Unutterable
The Unutterable – CD2: Testa Rossa Monitor Mixes
Are You Are Missing Winner
AYAMW 2006 Sanctuary Reissue – bonus tracks
The Real New Fall LP
The Real New Fall LP (Narnack US edition)
Country on the Click (Original Version)
Fall Heads Roll
Fall Heads Roll – Chapel Studio Demos
Reformation! Post TLC
Reformation! Post TLC – Slogan/Sanctuary UK edition
Reformation Post TLC – Narnack US edition
Reformation! Post TLC – expanded Digipak edition Disc 2
Reformation! Post TLC – expanded Digipak edition Disc 3: Early Rough Mixes 2006
Imperial Wax Solvent
Imperial Wax Solvent – Britannia Row Recordings
Your Future Our Clutter
Your Future Our Clutter – LP bonus tracks
Ersatz GB
Re-Mit
Sub-Lingual Tablet
New Facts Emerge
Singles and EPs
Bingo-Master’s Break-Out
It’s the New Thing
Rowche Rumble
Fiery Jack
How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
Totally Wired
Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
Look, Know
The Man Whose Head Expanded
Kicker Conspiracy / Wings
Marquis Cha-Cha
Oh! Brother
c.r.e.e.p.
Call for Escape Route
Couldn’t Get Ahead / Rollin’ Dany
Cruiser’s Creek
Living Too Late
Mr. Pharmacist
Hey! Luciani
There’s a Ghost in My House
The Peel Sessions EP
Hit the North
Victoria
Jerusalem/Big New Prinz
Cab It Up
Telephone Thing
Popcorn Double Feature
Popcorn Double Feature – Limited Edition
White Lightning
The Dredger EP
High Tension Line
Free Range
Ed’s Babe
Kimble
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Behind the Counter
Behind the Counter, part 1
Behind the Counter, part 2
15 Ways
The Chiselers
Masquerade
Masquerade CD One
Masquerade CD Two
Masquerade 10″
Touch Sensitive
F-‘oldin’ Money
F-‘oldin’ Money – CD #1
F-‘oldin’ Money – CD #2
Rude (All the Time) 7″
The Fall vs. 2003
(We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
Theme from Sparta F.C. #2
Theme from Sparta F.C. #2 – Enhanced CD
2 Librans
Blind Man
Rude (All the Time) EP
I Can Hear the Grass Grow
I Can Hear the Grass Grow – Slogan/Sanctuary 7″
I Can Hear the Grass Grow – Narnack US CD edition
Fall Sound
Reformation! The Single
Slippy Floor
Bury!
Laptop Dog
Night of the Humerons
Sir William Wray
The Remainderer
Wise Ol’ Man
Masquerade (2017 Record Store Day 7″)
O-Mit
Live/Studio Hybrid
Totale’s Turns (It’s Now or Never)
Seminal Live
Seminal Live – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
The Twenty-Seven Points
2G+2
Interim
Live Uurop VIII-XII Places in Sun And Winter, Son

Covers
Instrumentals
Peel Sessions
1978-May-30

Mark E. Smith – solo/spoken word
Greenwich Sound Radio (1983)
The Post Nearly Man
Pander! Panda! Panzer!
    Mark E. Smith – Collaborations and Guest Vocals
    Von Südenfed
      etc

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        Lyrics


        CD Version


        And Pierce Brosnan how dare you prescribe
        Sad grief and bed wet pills?
        Good grief bed wet
        Sad grief bed wet
        Pills

        Hurly Wurly how can you prescribe
        Sad grief and bed wet... pill?
        Rayland Wordley how dare you prescribe
        Sad grief bad chest
        Sad grief bed wet
        Pills

        Rayland Wordley how dare you prescribe me
        Bed wet pill and deep grief?
        Connie Cookie how could you subscribe
        Bed grief wet pills?
        Bed grief, bed wet
        Bed wet...pills
        Bad luck
        Zip up!
        Curly
        Bed wet good grief
        Good grief bed wet
        Zip up
        Zip up

        LP Version


        MES: What'd I say to you? For a change, we're put in a good position here. Because... it's actually something good we could work with... ya know, it doesn't mean... ya know...

        Other: You're a major player here, Mark. You could change the entire direction in one move. And I think it's not often that we're at this point this early in the procedure....

        MES: What about the corporation?

        O: Con...Connie and Cookie?...Erm, they subscribed.

        MES: Say - we've got to thank them for their full....

        O: (laughing) Their full cooperation...

        O (with MES dictating in the background): ...with the fall and their associates.

        MES: I would say the anti-Fall-ization. I would say the anti-Fall.

        O:Anti-Fall? Anti-Fall association. Their full cooperation with the anti-Fall association.

        MES (singing): Curly wurly how could you prescribe
        Bad grief and bed wet

        Connie Cookie how could you subscribe
        Bad grief, bad pills
        Bad grief
        Bed wet... Pills!

        Wurly wurly how dare you prescribe
        Bed wet, good grief
        Good grief, bed wet
        Zip up! Zip up!

        Commentary

        < Post in progress >

        Version: “Dedication (Remix)” from Wise Ol’ Man.

        Footnotes

        • The Annotated Fall: “Dedication Not Medication” [Archived]
        • Smith, Mark E. (2008). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark  E. Smith. London: Penguin.
        • The Track Record: “Dedication Not Medication”
        • Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide. London: Strata Books.
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        harleyr

        My attempt to transcribe the slightly more expansive lyrics from the fabulous Electric Brixton performance of 26th Sept 2014.

        I entered the scene
        I entered the scene
        The titles on the government TV was Dedication Not Medication
        Only did I find out on my entrance to the great glorified little ? where certain people want to live
        A torn up poster with Dedication ?
        Then I realised
        I had been 
        I had been unconsciously plagiarised by some arse from the Lloyds Bank
        What ?
        What could I do?
        Take the poster down.

        I can’t see ?
        ????
        Dedication Not Medication
        Dedication Not Medication

        Hurly Wurly how dare you prescribe?
        And Doctor Wurly how dare you prescribe?
        A ? pills bed wet they are bad pills
        Give it up Curly
        And Doctor Curly how dare you prescribe?
        Bed wet bad grief bad gried bed wet 
        Pills!

        Give it up Curly!