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The Unutterable
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Original UK release
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First released 6 November 2000 on Eagle Records CD: EAGCD164
01. Cyber Insekt
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
3:18
Film of film on book-rack
Book of film
Book on station track
Cyber Insekt
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
On rack
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
Come on back
Film of book
Film book-rack
Book of film
Book on station rack
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
On rack
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
Come on back
Purple in its glowingness
Golden roasting in its duly knowing
Book of film
Book on station track
Book of book with soundtrack
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
On rack
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
Come on back
Cyber Insekt
In its escarpment
Burning over all planes and trains
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
Station clack
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
Bring on station track
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
Station clack
Cyber Insekt Cyber Insekt
Yellow moth fly
Cyber Insekt
Break on station track
02. Two Librans
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
3:57
There were two Librans sat on a hill
And one always exiting to the easy gate
Exit to two years to be perfect
Two Librans reflect
Two Librans high and low in mind
To Oprah Winfrey
She studied bees
Studied bees - two Librans
War
The muggings dressing a soldat
Nelson in Timor
Tolstoy in Chechnya
Euro reflect on wastage
Two Librans reflect
Two Librans high and low in mind
To Oprah Winfrey
She studied bees
Studied bees - two Librans
Exit to two years to be perfect
Two Librans reflect
Two Librans
The miracles / Miracles on blonde September
Back to the [route / loot / lick]
Back to the [tedium / GBM]
The Cambodian Cambodian [rip]
03. W.B.
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
3:30
If on forever
Hit it
You've heard about that Blake
Went down the hill
In Chepstow in London
He was broke
But it was OK
Rome didn't matter or come up
But Heaven and Hell did
And look up
The fire, the fire is falling
And look up, look up
Flaming hair shot through the streaking sun over him
Oh merchant leave thy oil and Nebuchadnezzar [2]
Never knew there'd be times like this
Rome didn't matter or come up
But Heaven and Hell did
And look up
The fire, the fire is falling
And look up, look up
Oh citizens of London
Enlarge thy countenance
From the flaming wind-hairs of thought
In his forehead
Rome didn't matter or come off
But Heaven and Hell did
And look up
The fire, the fire is falling
And look up, look up
Notes:
[1] W.B. is English poet William Blake (1757-1827). Most of the song's lyrics are taken from his work "A Song of Liberty".
[2] Nebuchadnezzar was a 4th dynasty ruler of the Old Babylonian Empire (605-562 BC) who destroyed Jerusalem and carried the Jews into captivity.
04. Sons Of Temperance
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
3:47
The firmament is both my enemy and my friend
One other thing's for sure - division in my soul
Punk art person was you my son
You're an androgynous piece of slop
Roll up! Sons of temperance
Voila! Sons of temperance
Roll up! Sons of temperance
Present crypto-moralist nation
On the night out of the valley
Of sweet silence
Dark distortions of the past
And the restructure of your new life
Firmament is both my enemy and madness
One other thing's for sure - division in my soul
The abolition of your mind and your brain and your soul
Bell-hop
Roll up! Sons of temperance
Voila! Sons of temperance
Voila! Sons of temperance
Present crypto-moralist nation
On the night out of the valley
Of sweet silence
Dark distortions of the past
And the restructure of your new life
05. Dr. Bucks' Letter
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
5:18
I lost my temper with a friend
Mocked him and treated him with rudeness
And though I tried to make amends
Feel I miss him and walk a dark corridor
Woke up one morning
Doctor Buck’s letter
Of my own making, I walk a dark corridor of my heart
Hoping one day a door will be ajar
At least so we can recompense
Our betrayal of our hard won friendship
In vulgar and arrogant abeyance
To what was untrue underneath our parlance
I open the envelope, Doctor Buck’s letter
Re: Welfare Benefits reports
J. McCarthy, approximately 10-15 days
I got down, I was depressed
It was Doctor Buck’s letter
Turn the radio on
Doctor Buck’s Letter
Cheer myself up
Put the radio on, get the magazine out
And read about the ‘Essence of Tong’
Checklist:
I never leave home without:
1. Sunglasses - I wear them all year around, and seem to need them more often, it’s a habit
2. Music - cassettes, CDs
3. Palm Pilot - it’s my lifeline. I think it’s my P.A.’s computer, she rules my diary and I download it
4. Mobile phone
5. Amex card - they made such a fuss about giving it to me but I spend more time getting it turned down
I was in the realm of the essence of Tong
06. Hot Runes
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
2:17
Hot June, summer afternoon
Hot June, summer afternoon
Alan Brazil and Hatton on about 'discipline for all'
Involved in hyper-bowl about the track checklist.
Post office workers are those who sit alone.
The promises they gave casual - used them before.
They've turned all cities into animal pens.
Hot June, summer afternoon
Hot June, summer afternoon
Hot June, summer afternoon
Hot June, summer afternoon
Upset, embarrassed skint in a tie
07. Way Round
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal)
3:21
Walked through a crystal maze you created
And enter values as Vikings enter
Leathered to 70's shoeboxes
Into glass, into glass
I hit roundabout x 4
I stumble into glass disco sweatboxes and leathered to the 70's
And still do not know it
I hit roundabout x 4
I just can't find my way x 3
Round
I just can't find my way x 3
Round
I just can't find my way x 3
Round
I just can't find my way x 3
Round
08. Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun
(Smith/Nagle/Cunliffe/Helal/Head)
5:36
Hi! I'm Spliffhead I like to lie on the floor
Hello, I'm Girlie
I'm not and I'm cynical
Hi! I'm Ketamine Kettison
Hi! I'm Julia and I'm Schoolie
I'm Smith
Hi! I'm Smartass at the computer
Hi! I'm Skunklad
[inaudible
New Programme: The Kettisons
Your kids are making queerer sounds
[Your little dog moans]
You don't need all this hassle because your brain is aseed
Anthony takes a front tooth
We count them all at least
K Sun - AK/AK like a wise one
Your brother's in the pen but you see your electromorph
And you can't even describe it because you're a K sun
You are a piece of slop
Can't say it any better
You took a TV and nailed it to the bench of a jeweller
Your mum's moustache needs fixing
Dad's washing up for one
Ketamine Sun
All school / stoolpigeons need tea, even at six foot one
You're a walking tower of Adidas crap at a cobblers four times a month
Ketamine Sun
Ketamine Sun
I was right but now I'm wrong
I loved you now and now you're gone
I was a goddamn fool, you taught me that
But I look out at
K-K-Ketamine Sun x 6
Life is like a holy war
Destroyed my life and the ties that bind
Take it - my world's destroyed
Take it
K-K-Ketamine Sun x 6
Behind the clouds
For me
Like I did
Cos I'm
K-K-Ketamine Sun
09. Serum
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
4:55
Help yourself dear brother as long as you've got serum
101
101.1
And kids, I just need to get home to them
There's no mam there or there wasn't last time I looked
And many have found pleasures in curvaceous women
We're excluded for our own good
When will the serum come again?
101
101.1
Many have found pleasures in curvaceous women
Their undulating curves upper and lower
But what I really need is a glass of cold water
The serum gives results
When will the serum come again?
101
101.1
First three hairs descended in this morning
From the fringe of the fop
And the scalp of your mind
Serum unavailable
And where the sun meets the dawn
And the serum never came
101
101.1
Glass of velvet pilsner and a glass of water. The first three hairs descended out into your lock stock and barrel mentality. Fragile rejected backward mind said 'What - could - get?' I give him - understandably aged - been in heat - neutered res...
10. Unutterable
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
1:05
This non-appliance sound
This dead durch sprung technik - horrible
This the breath of Nick
On dripping post-seizure, Venetian / finishing floated brain of intolerable
This the rank posturings and insights of the unutterable
11. Pumpkin Soup And Mashed Potatoes
(Smith/Nagle/Cunliffe/Helal)
2:54
Parmesian carrots with mushrooms
Frankly that I've never been keen on
It's pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
That's for my Hallowe'en tea
Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
That has always been my dream
Physicians moan about the guarantees of vegetables
But to be frank what I'm keen on is that same old scene
Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
That is my Hallowe'en tea
Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
That's why I'm always keen
Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
They'll keep me clean
Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
I'm old, not much, but I'm going mad
Because of the starvation that I've had
Clouds rush by
But I always have my dream
Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
That is my hallowe'en tea
Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
12. Hands Up Billy
(Wilding)
2:46 (Smith/Nagle/Cunliffe/Helal)
2:54
Hey you think you're a steel chest
You haven't got a steel chest on ya!
Billy with a flat Billy with a phone
Billy with a girl but lives on his own
Billy with some money travels far
Billy gets a loan he can buy a car
Walks into the showroom all I could see
Billy with some money saying take it from me
Before he's even shook my hand I notice that
He chose the car and filled out all the forms as well
Hands up Billy your composure's gone
Hands up Billy got you on the run
Fly fly Billy now the bill is up
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!
Hands up Billy
Hands up Billy
After Billy tells you does he know what to think?
Sit her in the car she wants to get her a drink
Take her for a test drive on a fatal street
When she says goodbye she's holding a receipt
Hands up Billy your composure's gone
Hands up Billy got you on the run
Fly fly Billy now the bill is up
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!
Hands up Billy
Hands up Billy
Billy is uncomfortable his arms and legs crossed
His head's a little weary he's a little lost
Sit him down and lose some weight he's got the fear in him
Now the doors are open and I'm walking in
Hands up Billy your composure's gone
Hands up Billy got you on the run
Hands up Billy cos you're nicked, crit
Hands up Billy you're the crucifix
Hands up Billy
Hands up Billy he's working off a grudge yeah
Hands up Billy you're walking in a crutch, yeah
13. Midwatch 1953
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
5:32
[-]
14. Devolute
(Smith/Nagle/Head/Helal/Wilding)
4:36
[two voices interleaved - tone declamatory]
...from the mouths of those....
...english glasnost...
...who use air rifles on their friendly....
...why is the truly skint never ssssss-scotch ridden...
...embrace...negate...
...how does...
....devolute....
....man prise the political from anything from a garden...
...metamorphosis...barge...
...eject plane or a loaf...
...euro jazz..devo-land...
...english glasnost...
...metro-jazz...
...to re-iterate
...indiginous...
...injury list...
...devolute-tionite....
...the stinking cast and the stinking east...
...in fear of bill...
... three mile quaker pub radius...
...became different person...
...the reality of right of portion of forthcoming...
...'tricity and face three years solid for evasion...
...was posessed by the indiginous...Chorltonite natural aversion...
...there is also the little matter of shafting somebody while they're working...
...like what you did at Shefield...
...get lost...
...yours sincerely...
...famous face...
...pop star...
...also when are you can't afford a stamp...
...and get with food...
...fat-arse...
...which...
...it's the gas electric workers and the carpenters...
...is more than I have since end of May...
...and the assertion of the letters to press battery better make it better
...tenth...
...goodbye cackhead...
...sincere...
...yours...
...smith...
...faced murderer...
...geriatric...
...like indiginous...
...you wanted to know that didn't ya...
...english glasnost...
...Chorltonite
...why are the truly skint never...
...devoluted...
...what would life be without comedy...
...how does the political man prise from anyth'....
...comedy and music...
...music and comedy...
...from a garden...
...devolute...
...eject...
...what would it be like...
...plague...
...or a loaf...
...what would life be like without...
[the rest in a melancholy tone]
devolute
and forget to
reboot the gas boiler
don't forget to
listen to
the phone in BBC
northern
god I thought
I'd regret
some crocus
god I thought I
had recruit
some crocus
the gurning hosts
were grinning twinkle eyed
maniac
rumour host
and all the stuff in your...
invalid
devolute
I...on freezin' rot
strafed by
days of chance
english glasnost
its visitation is vibration
i am not
wrong-able
from the werewolf
and the...
pseudo jobs
english glasnost
the unutterable
refrain duplex
in the shrine
found a photo booth
in...absolute
devolute
devolute
15. Das Katerer
(Smith/Nagle/Wolstencroft)
2:42
And dad will keep you warm
And mam will keep you warm
And in the smash
Stick with me, stick with me
I am the caterer
I am the caterer
I am the caterer
[voices]
I deal chips from the left
Chicken and chips off the bone
I offer all on the menu
Stick with me, stick with me
I am your caterer
I am your caterer
I am the caterer
And with the finest grain solution
No dogs allowed
Get out of my house
I am not your mother
Stick with me
Stick with me
I am your caterer
I am your caterer
(CD: tracks 1-15)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals, SFX
Julia Nagle - keyboards, guitar, vocals, programming
Tom Head - drums, percussion, vocals
Neville Wilding - guitar, vocals
Adam Helal - bass, pro tools, vocals
With:
Steve Evets - vocals
Kazuko Hohki - vocals (track 1)
Ben Pritchard - guitar (track 5)
Grant Cunliffe - vocals
Produced by: Grant Showbiz and Mark E Smith
Engineered by: Andy Drelincourt, Mike Body, Adam Helal
Cover artwork: Pascal Le Gras
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Testa-Rossa Studios, Manchester; Street Level 2 Studio, London; Sonic Surgery, Manchester mid 2000.
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2008 Voiceprint reissue
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Reissued on 10 Novmber 2008 on Voiceprint CD: VP451CD (2 CDs) with the original tracklisting on CD1 plus bonus tracks on CD2, sub-titled Testa Rossa Monitor Mixes:
01. Serum 4:53
02. Two Librans 3:40
03. Hands Up Billy 2:47
04. Cyber Insekt 3:26
05. Dr. Buck's Letter 5:17
06. Midwatch 1953 5:48
07. Sons Of Temperance 3:44
08. W.B 2:07
09. Octo Realm / Ketamine Sun 2:30
10. Devolute 3:32
11. Hot Rune 1:53
12. Instrum One 2:06
13. Instrum Two aka Two 3:31
The bonus tracks are early, rough versions of the album tracks with 12 and 13 being instrumental pieces that weren't used on the final cut. Track 12 was also known by the working title Rubber; track 13 was also known by the working title Weirdo. Note that the position of the apostrophe has changed from Dr. Bucks' Letter to Dr. Buck's Letter throughout the reissue artwork.
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