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Telephone Thing

Original UK release
First released 15 January 1990 on Cog Sinister via Fontana 7": SIN4; 12": SIN412; and CD: SINCD4

01. Telephone Thing (Smith/Black/More) 4:11  Lyrics

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?
Sorry to be so short with you
But I'm tapped
But I'm tapped

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

The use of [..] and your smug advertisements
of your tendril ocean bed achievements does not
justify your abuse of privacy piracy act

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I feel you Telephone Thing listening in

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?
You Gretchen Franklin nosey matron thing

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

Sense you

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?
You Gretchen Franklin nosey matron type

Does the Home Secretary have the barest faintest inkling of what's going down?

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

The use of [..] and your amug advertisements
Of your tendril ocean bed achievements does not justify your abuse of privacy piracy act

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I do you Telephone Thing listening in

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you
You Gretchen Franklin thing

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

Sense you

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

Sense you

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?

I'm tapped

I hear you Telephone Thing listening in

I HEAR YOU TELEPHONE THING

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02. British People In Hot Weather (Smith/Scanlon/Wolstencroft/Hanley, S) 3:10  Lyrics

Fill green envelopes and send them to ya
On train ride, read Marx tracts
Play walkmans loud behind ya
Demonstrate on Oxford Street
About what the Hell they couldn't tell ya
British people in hot weather
Have a heart-to-heart with your sister
People in shorts drunk before ya
Beached whale in Wapping
His armpit hairs are sprouting
Serpentine ah.... Serpentine grrr...
British people in hot weather

Press hot houses waste tree statements
Compare your pearls before the King of Monks
I'm telling ya, oh
Do they know they can get cancer?
Designer tramp goes grrr...
Looking jolly from Stoke
As he walks through and makes up
Titles like this, to order
They're well off their trolley
Smoking like a chimney
Bespectacled stare-out
British people in hot weather

I was a candidate for club 18-30
but I've been through all that shit before
British people in hot weather
That's it, I'm looking straight for the car
If that's how you feel, let's go
British people in hot weather

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03. Telephone Thing (extended) (Smith/Black/More) 4:22
04. Telephone Dub (Smith/Black/More) 4:27

(7" side 1: track 1; side 2: track 2)
(12" side 1: tracks 3; side 2: tracks 2,4)
(CD: tracks 3,2,4)

Credits
Mark E Smith - vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Martin Bramah - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Marcia Schofield - keyboards
Simon Wolstencroft - drums

Produced by: Coldcut (Matt Black and Jonathan More) (tracks 1, 3-4); Craig Leon and Adrian Sherwood (track 2)
Mixed by: Coldcut (tracks 1, 3-4); Adrian Sherwood (track 2)
Cover artwork: Anthony Frost

Recording info & notes
Recorded at Southern Studios, London; Swanyard Studios, London; The Manor, Oxfordshire; Wool Hall, Somerset mid-late 1989.

A promotional 12" (SINDJ412) was issued with tracks 3, 2 & 4 and a promotional cassette with tracks 1-2.


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