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The Wonderful And Frightening World Of
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Original UK release
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First released 12 October 1984 on Beggars Banquet LP: BEGA58; and cassette: BEGC58
01. Lay Of The Land
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
5:44
Lay
Lay
Lay
Armageddon
This beautiful tree
Boo hoo
Give up living
Ample
Eye
They give in
On The Buses, up the stair
By the television
Pretend to learn
Where's the lay of the land
My son
Where's the lay of the land
My son
What's the lie of the land
My son
The last Briton on the street
He's in a radio fuzz
He's dead and beat
No longer reflects our daft fate
We'll leave this city
Hit a quick coach, take the town in Surrey
There's no-one here but crooks and death
Kerb-crawlers,of the worst order
Where's the lay of the land
My son
What's the lie of the land
My son
Eldritch house
With green moss
Sound of ordinary on the waves
Tiles drip from its roof
Home secretary has a weird look
Where's the lay of the land
My son
What's the lie of the land
My son
The good Book of John
Surrounds the son
Sound of ordinary on the waves
Italic scribble on horizon
When the height of culture is a bad stew
Space bores, government disorder
Indian clerk, low-calorie drink
Where's the lay of the land
Where children circle in cycles
Giving jokes ad lib
By bearded writers
Who defected to
Higher realms
Advertising realms
Where's the lay of the land
My son
What's the lie of the land
My son
(People laughing..people fighting..people watching)
Between the ticker and the mind lies an air-block of wind
02. 2 x 4
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
3:37
He was agin the rich
He was agin the poor
He was against all trepidation
He was agin the rich
On the loose again
He was agin the rich
There's a new fiend on the loose
On the back of the exhaust clip
Clipped on rich and poor alike
Come to roost again once more
Ol' Nick doesn't go from digs to digs no more
Hit him on the head with a 2 by 4
Nowadays he has a Georgian glazed porch
Used table leg to club son in law
New fiend in your home again
He said show me my quarters and glasses
There's a new fiend on the loose
Jolting in his tradition
It's a fear of the obtuse
He's got patents on the moaning
03. Copped It
(Burns/Smith, ME)
4:15
Said I ain't no millionaire
But I spent more money than one ever seen
I'm gonna change that scene one day
It's what you're supposed to say
Hey hey hey hey
Can't get far in land of immovable frogs
Can't get far in home of horrible hoax
And you don't last long on a diet of tea and toast
Hey hey hey
And I'm singing the song cause I copped it baby
I steal what I have
Fascist confessions bring detractors
Keeping shtum
Brings dough and attractions
Costello, ideas trenchant borrows
New song benefactor
Is the past tomorrow
Sing, sing a song
I'm singing the song cause I copped it baby
Don't last long
There's guns behind you
Aura of desparate boot licker
And you can't hang on with a cuff of him and girl
I'm singing a song cause I copped it baby
Taking out a policy for love and destruction
Can't operate with this vexation
Say it again, real real gone
I know I've copped but I'm not the only one.
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
04. Elves
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
4:47
When will the good Scotch return?
In all its scarred splendor
When will the price of Scotch come down?
Here's him in nearly '85
Hanging around with pop scum
It's not the business I despise
On this train, extended ride
It's the Scotch end of the market now
And steel glasses
And bad music corpses
Cannot hide the new rock scum
Spitting on what's good and gone
Spitting on what's good and gone
When will the price of Scotch come down?
Arrangement before job done
Alignment before job done
Assignment before song sung
Alignment before job done
All of this fantastic league's against me
The Fantastic is in league against me
Tin-can rattle on the path
The [bestial greed] is on the attack
The cat black runs round the tree
The siamese reached the shore
The siamese reached the shore
No never, no never no more
will I trust the elves of Dunsimore (repeated)
05. Slang King
(Hanley, S/Smith, ME/Smith, B)
5:20
You feel depressed 'cause you've missed the day
Then you have to go to the hall
Whip wire
Whip wire
Hawk man
Slip down easy
Don't make me a go-between
This is Mr. and Mrs. Smith
To whom you are speaking
Slang King
Words from a cheap man
Part-paid type who got his style
From a press treatise
2 pound 50
Bottle of Brut and nausea
Magazine
It's no longer a journey down the road for him
It is now escape route
Bright, turn off sign
Swing, 14, turns off, between
Swingo greets lime green receptionist
All here is ace, All here is ace, All here is ace
Escape route
Caca-phony
Slang King
Swoop swoop
Foll media krieg, for his honour's binge
During his Scandinavian stint
He said hi to Horst, the viking
Hi Lo-l-lord Swingo
At his triumphant procession
Down the road of quease
Dropping off, he stopped
At a British shop
Swoop scoop
Slang King
At a British shop
Take it down easy
During a lull in his attack
3 little girls with only 50 pence
Had to take, had to put
The Curly Wurly back
Swoop swoop, scoop scoop
Slip down easy
Slip away at court or him and his bloody mother
We'll go together
Sugar down
Slip down easy
Hyper!
Slang King
Watch, the word had right
Biz by word processor
We'll go together, slip down down away
Hyper, with the young designers
The young designers are always there
Always wanted to be there
Slip down, caca-phony
Whip wire, whip wire
Slip down easy, sugar
Slip down easy, sugar
Slip down away, sugar
Hawkman, whip wire, whip wire
Slang King
06. Bug Day
(Burns/Hanley, S/Hanley, P/Scanlon/Smith, ME/Smith, B)
4:58
[Misereen] all its skin
Bug day
Bug day
Midges - midges hovered over the heather
3 moths shivered
Green moths shivered
Cockroaches moldered in the ground
Tonguehorns belched fire
So, fleed at sea
Terrors hit water
Minoa said 'eek'
Minoa said 'eek'
Sea reaffirms some things
We learned some things
People behave very wrong
Create company
Green is starboard, back
Left is port, there
Old continental women
Coffee cups poised on front
Facing up to the sea is a very hard thing
Facing up to sea is a v. hard thing
Anything is better than bug day
Bug day
Bug day
Bug day
But day
[mumbles]
Bug day
Anything is better than bug day
Bug day
Bug day
07. Stephen Song
(Hanley, S/Hanley, P/Smith, ME)
3:04
It was a thing with a head like a spud ball
It was a song, the song we were looking for
I always have to state to myself
It has nothing to do with me
He has nothing
He is not me
(His vendetta parchment)
Floating grey abundance
Against my palace of conscience
(Our hero deeply loved
Moonlit walked past privet and wide-leaved foliage)
I'll tell you of the rats in this world
Fawning in place with The Face
Men coming between each other
For the sake of a two-minute urge
(It is headless)
Worth $5 in London
And cursed anon.
Our hero, still deeply loved
Moonlit walks past privet and wide leaved
It was no more a net of mesh
It was class
He did not blink a lid
He braced his self-imposed gorgeous adult net
And breeze
And it was class
And no no-man's land
Ever had this?
Their follies are strong liberation
08. Craigness
(Scanlon/Smith, ME)
3:03
Neighbour downstairs with one eye
Co-habs with a mass of blonde curls
Ooo-ar
T'pau
(Mind moving fast is mad
Mind moving slow is sane)
It's [granpathy] fits set on eyes
[Mazim] peculiar tan
He sports the maroon flares
Mind moving slow is sane
Mind moving fast is mad
Mind left stopped he's got
Writer in bed insane
Clutches pen in hand
The scrawl he wrote
Neighbour downstairs with one eye
Co-habs with a mass of blonde curls
Her shadow face
Mind moving slow is sane
Mind moving fast is mad
Mind left stopped he's got
Neighbour downstairs with one eye
Co-habs with a mass of blonde curls
Their babe cries
09. Disney's Dream Debased
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
5:17
The day the dream went right back to base
There was blood on the ground
Blood on the sand
Blood all around
Tracks of the ride of the bright murder hawk
The day the dream debased and went home
And the people did mill to those adrenaline rails
And everything stopped
The nurses climbed up
Our face paled
And there was no doubt at all
No two ways about it
Was the day Disney's dream debased
Saw a mouse, who flapped at my wife
And she told him what
And she told him what had gone down
Who then did not know the extent of the show
The people had [died/gave?] in the mouth of their ride
Disney
And Dopey and Mickey, Brer and Pluto
Secretly prayed
And there was no doubt at all
No two ways about it
Was the day Disney's dream debased
Disney
Dark glasses on Western Union
Man the gates
The dream, an innocent meets her fate
Far away from Appalachia and the city hate
The day X3
When there was no doubt at all
No maybe about it
It was the day the dream debased
Disney
I remembered it from
The back of my mind
The tune that I wrote
In fallen dreams
Anthem to
Creator of all that had stopped
So there was no doubt at all
No two ways about it
It was the day the dream debased
(LP side 1: tracks 1-4; LP side 2: tracks 5-9)
The cassette version was entitled "Escape Route From The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall" and included the bonus tracks:
10. Oh! Brother
(Smith, ME/Burns/Hanley, S/Scanlon)
4:00
11. Draygo's Guilt
(Smith, ME/Scanlon)
4:29
12. God-Box
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
3:18
13. Clear Off
(Smith, ME/Scanlon)
4:40
14. c.r.e.e.p.
(Smith, ME/Hanley, S/Hanley, P/Scanlon/Smith, B)
3:08
15. Pat-Trip Dispenser
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
3:59
16. No Bulbs
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
7:51
(Cassette side 1: tracks 1-4, tracks 10-13; side 2: tracks 14-15, tracks 5-9, track 16)
Tracks 10 & 12 come from the Oh! Brother single; tracks 11, 13 & 16 come from the Call For Escape Route single; tracks 14-15 come from the c.r.e.e.p. single.
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Brix Smith - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Paul Hanley - drums, keyboards
Karl Burns - drums, bass
With:
Gavin Friday - vocals (tracks 3, 7 & 13)
Produced by: John Leckie
Engineered by: Joe Gillingham
Cover artwork: Claus Castenskiold
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Focus Studios mid 1984.
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Overseas releases
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Released in Canada on Beggars Banquet/Vertigo on LP (BEGA58), same tracklisting as original LP. Released in Spain on Producciones Twins on LP (T3024), same tracklisting as original LP. Released in the Netherlands on Torso on LP (TORSO 33003) with bonus track c.r.e.e.p. Released in France in 1984 on Beggars Banquet/Virgin on LP (BEGA58) with bonus track c.r.e.e.p. (not listed on sleeve, but shown on record label). Released in USA on Beggars Banquet/PVC on LP (PVC 8932) with bonus tracks c.r.e.e.p. and No Bulbs 3. Released in New Zealand in 1984 on Beggars Banquet/Virgin on LP (BEGA58) with bonus track c.r.e.e.p. (not listed on sleeve, but shown on record label); and cassette (BEGC58), tracklisting as per original LP plus c.r.e.e.p. and No Bulbs.
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1988 CD reissue
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Reissued in 1988 on Beggars Banquet CD: BEGA58CD with the tracklisting the same as the original cassette release.
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1990 CD reissue
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Reissued in 1990 on Beggars Banquet budget price CD: BBL58CD with the tracklisting the same as the original cassette release.
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1997 CD reissue
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Reissued in 1997 on Beggars Banquet CD: BBL58CD with the tracklisting the same as the original cassette release. A repressing with the same catalogue number as the 1990 CD reissue, but the back cover artwork is different.
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2010 Omnibus reissue
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Reissued on 25 October 2010 on Beggars Banquet Omnibus Edition CD box set: BBQCD 2066 (4 CDs). Deluxe box set with replica LP sleeves and inner liners and bags. 48 page booklet.
CD1:
Original LP tracks.
CD2 (Singles And Rough Mixes):
01. Oh! Brother 4:02
02. God-Box 3:22
03. O! Brother 4:19
04. c.r.e.e.p. 3:10
05. Pat-Trip Dispenser 4:01
06. C.R.E.E.P. 4:43
07. New Fiend (2 By 4) 3:36
08. No Bulbs 3 (Unedited) 5:02
09. Slang King 2 5:16
10. Draygo's Guilt 4:31
11. Clear Off! 4:43
12. No Bulbs 7:50
13. Lay Of The Land (Rough Mix) 4:17
14. Pat-Trip Dispenser (Rough Mix) 4:05
15. New Fiend (Rough Mix) 3:39
16. Slang King (Edits Version One) 5:57
Tracks 7-8 & 13-16 are previously unreleased alternate versions.
CD3 (Radio Sessions):
01. Creep (Peel Session) 2:37
02. Pat - Trip Dispenser (Peel Session) 4:11
03. 2 By 4 (Peel Session) 4:18
04. Words Of Expectation (Peel Session) 9:17
05. God Box (Jensen Session) 2:48
06. Lay Of The Land (Jensen Session) 3:59
07. Oh Brother (Jensen Session) 3:50
08. Creep (Jensen Session) 2:51
09. No Bulbs (Long Session) 4:20
10. Draygo's Guilt (Long Session) 4:49
11. Stephen Song (Long Session) 3:17
12. Slang King (Long Session) 6:25
13. Copped It (Saturday Live) 5:59
14. Elves (Saturday Live) 4:10
15. Fortress/Marquis Cha Cha (Saturday Live) 5:57
Tracks 1-4 are from John Peel radio session #7; tracks 5-8 are from the David Jensen radio session; tracks 9-12 are from Janice Long radio session #1; tracks 13-15 are from the Saturday Live radio session.
CD4 (Live):
01. Lay Of The Land 5:02
02. Craigness 3:09
03. 2 By 4 3:41
04. Draygo's Guilt 5:14
05. No Bulbs 6:00
06. Kicker Conspiracy 5:03
07. Stephen Song 4:22
08. Copped It 7:22
09. Pat - Trip Dispenser 4:25
10. Middle Mass 6:01
Live at Pandora's Music Box Festival, De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 22 September 1984.
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