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Cruiser's Creek
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Original UK release
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First released 11 October 1985 on Beggars Banquet 7": Beg150; and 12": Beg150T
01. Cruiser's Creek
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
6:11
What really went on there?
we only have this excerpt:
There's a party going on down around here
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Watch the shirt-tails flapping in the wind
Sidewalk running
See the people holding from the back
Hat-boaters tilting
There's a party going down around here
Cruiser's Creek now
uh Cruiser's Creek yea (5x)
Got nice pink bubbles in my mouth
From what I've taken
There's a party come around annual
Cruiser's Creek now
And Bianco on the breath guaranteed
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Cruiser's Creek now
Cruiser's Creek
Cruiser's Creek yeah x 3
See the street-litter twisting in the wind
Crisp bags turning
See B and H cartons laughing in the wind
Road-litter turning
Spent forty-five minutes last night
Parallel crease, pow!
There's a good mid-afternoon breeze
In the air now
Welcome treats from party
My brain is clear now
No more Red Wedge in the pub or ZTT stuff
At Cruiser's Creek now
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Cruiser's Creek
(rambling chorus by Brix et al)
There's a party going down around here
Next to Freedom street
Get the last of the poison off my chest
Cruiser's creek
I crave sex behind steel cabinets
It's for what I'm yearning
And there's a dim chance it's what I'm gonna get
At Cruiser's Creek yeah
At Cruiser's Creek now
At Cruiser's Creek
Workforce! Limited!
Cruiser's Creek yeah!
Somebody went and left on the gas
Checkpoint, main gate
As I lit a number 6 cigarette
Like a wick, burning
Cruiser's Creek.
Stamp it out just before it's too late
Turn the tap off.
My name is Big Hero, mate
Cruiser's Creek
Avoid disaster
And I imagine
The sound of its blast, yeah
There's a party going down around here
Cruiser's Creek now
Watch the shirt-tails flapping in the wind
sidewalk running
See the people holding from the back
Hat-boaters tilting
There's a party going on around here
Cruiser's Creek now
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Cruiser's Creek
Nuptial!
Annual!
Freaks limited!
Cruiser's Creek!
02. L.A.
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
4:09
Odeon
Sky
Uncanny
Bushes are in disagreement with the heat
L.A.
Uncanny
Person
They have filled boulevards with white snow, scum-ball
L.A.
This is my happening and it freaks me out
03. Vixen
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
4:01
It had taken her a long time
Suddenly back on its own
To sit, friendless & alone
She is friendless and alone
I'm a vixen on its own
The triple gang & the throng
Did not feel helpless or alone
The vixen got no friends
She needs a poison pen
Even in Switzerland
The people cry "vixen"
Silver cross, all alone
The bird had flown
With their omen they'll fly
Had flown, silver cross
All alone
(So millions were broken hearted)
All alone, with no home
It's all alone
And some night, wind moves the leaves
They pick themselves up & run
Perhaps all that night possessed no way of telling time
It had taken her a long time
Suddenly back on its own
To sit, friendless & alone
She is friendless and alone
A man's trust, appalling debt
To sit friendless and alone
With no home, with no home
Vixen's got no home
She is friendless and alone
A long time on its own
It shone around her
Triple gang
(7" side 1: track 1; side 2: track 2)
(12" side 1: track 1; side 2: tracks 2,3)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Brix Smith - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Simon Rogers - bass, guitar, keyboards
Karl Burns - drums
Produced by: John Leckie
Engineer: Joe Gillingham
Cover photo: Michael Pollard
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded mid 1985.
The 7" plays at 33rpm.
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