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High Tension Line
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Original UK release
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First released ?? December 1990 on Cog Sinister via Fontana 7": SIN7; and 12": SIN712
01. High Tension Line
(Smith/Scanlon/Hanley, S)
3:50
High tension line, step down
Jeanette Fletcher is strange but not in a horrible way
And Michelle Spencer is this tight
Come and hear her today
And see 40-year olds in multicoloured shirts
It never used to concern me
But now it's making me say
High tension line, step down
Buying houses and doing them up far far away
Got at my shoulder CDTI and behind me TDK
You have to go far for the simple and unadorned
And please excuse my words, wandering
High tension line, step down
At my feet CDTI breakdown
And I pick up the phone, no-one
And am far too far fast for sampling
Just spend my time avoiding
High tension line, step down
Life is nothing more than a disposable
Facial tissue in a brass bin and spawn
Take it out, I notice face imprint
And please excuse my words, I'm wandering
High tension line, step down
02. Xmas With Simon
(Smith/Scanlon/Wolstencroft)
3:28
Do not fret, rest your head, Jesus had no fear
Do not fret, rest your head, Xmas time is here
Castle in the snow, Southern white sign
No explanation for the lights
Empires were tumbling, pity the people in the desert
Jesus did
Pity the people who had too much dessert
Jesus
Big old nice old house
It's Christmas
In old English village
Jesus
It's that time again
It's Christmas
And those films again
Born in a barn
Surrounded by animals
No set amount to the number of diseases
Died at the age of 33
Which is as good a time as any
White outside
Bowl of light glows
Slow march of the humble
Wrong shall fail and the right prevail
Jesus
Big old nice old house
It's Christmas
In old English village
Jesus
It's that time again
It's Christmas
And those films again
Do not fret, rest your head, Jesus had no fear
Do not fret, rest your head, Xmas time is here
Jesus
Big old nice old house
In old English village
With candles
Jesus
It's that time again
And those films again
Jesus
It's Christmas
House of gold
Castle in the snow
Jesus
It's Christmas
Jesus
It's Christmas
03. Don't Take The Pizza
(Smith/Rogers)
2:37
All that is gone is shredded by the auto-man
The glass ceiling it did shake and then it did undulate
Don't take the pizza off me
Slumber I told yer
Don't take the pizza off me
Birmingham nonsense from city there once was bronze
QED each day
QED is quid each day
Don't take the pizza off me
Don't take it...
Your brain splits each day from information anxiety
From me pinch I cringe
You dopey randy acid clone
Don't take the pizza off me
Slash fat cats
See vamp watch out
Get rid of straight away
Don't take the pizza off me
Don't pick up mind track
(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
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Simon Wolstencroft - drums
Produced by: Mark E Smith and Grant Showbiz
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded mid-late 1990.
A promo cassette was issued (SIN7(12)) with tracks 1-3.
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