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I Am Kurious Oranj
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Original UK release
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First released 24 October 1988 on Beggars Banquet LP: BEGA96; cassette: BEGC96; and CD: BEGA96CD (later pressings: BBL96CD)
01. New Big Prinz
(Smith, ME/Scanlon/Hanley, S/Schofield)
3:25
Rockin' records
Rockin' records
Rock the record
Rockin' records
The guy's rock records
Big priest
Rockin records
Rock the records
Rock rock records
Drink the long
Drink the long draught
Drink the long draught for big priest
Drink the long draught down
Drink the long
Drink the long draught
Big priest
He is not (appreciated)
Drink the long
Drink the long draught
Drink the long draught for big priest
Rock the records
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
He is not appreciated
Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Big priest
Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Check the record
Check the guy's rock record
He is not appreciated
Drink the long draught down
Drink the long
Drink the long for big priest
Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
He is not appreciated
Rock the records
Rock the records
Rockin' records
Big priest
Drink the long
Drink the long draught
Drink the long draught for the big priest
Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
He is not appreciated
Rock the records
Rock the records
Rockin' records
Big prinz
Rockin records
Rockin records
Rockin records
Rockin records
Rockin records
Rockin rec - rock's records
02. Overture From 'I Am Curious Orange'
(Smith, B)
2:49
Kurious oranj
Kurious oranj
Yes, O yes
You're Bad News Girl
Bad News Girl
Hip hip hip hip hip
Bremen nacht
Frenz-uh
Dr Annabel Lies!
03. Dog Is Life/Jerusalem
(Blake/Smith, ME)
7:24 (CD 8:54)
You don't see rabbits being walked down the street
And you don't see many cats on leads
Dogs pet dogs dogs rapacious wet dogs
Owner of dogs slow-witted dog owner
Owner of rabid dog saving fare for tunnel
Euro-dream of civil, civil liberation for dogs
Society secret society inevitable nightmare
Of drift dog pet dogs street bullshit
Dog shit baby bit ass-lick dog mirror
Dead tiger shot and checked out by dog
Big tea-chest-fucker dog
Black collar sends East German refugee back switch and crap pathetic
Of earth-like lousy dog role model for infidel doghouse continent
Mutt citadel dog-eye mirror hypnotic school slaver and learn
Rot from dog on grass and over nervous delicate dog
Detracts light from indiscrepant non-dog-lover
Dog pet dog come home to ya
Come home we'll talk shit to ya
Dog the pet-owner-owner blistered hanging there death dog
Plato of the human example and copier dogmaster pet mourner
Dog is life
And did those feet in ancient times,
Walk upon mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth on clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem
In the dark Satanic Mills? [1]
Jerusalem
It was the fault of the government
I was walking down the street
When I tripped up on a discarded banana skin
And on my way down I caught the side of my head
On a protruding brick chip
It was the government's fault
It was the fault of the government
I was very let down with the budget
I was expecting a one million quid handout
I was very disappointed
It was the government's fault
It was the fault of the government
I became a semi-artistic type person
And I didn't have a pen
And I didn't have a condom
It was the fault of the government
I think I'll emigrate to Sweden or Poland
And get looked after properly by government
Jerusalem
Bring Bow of burning gold:
Bring Arrows of desire:
Bring me Spear: O clouds unfold!
And though I rest from Mental Fight,
And though sword sleeps in hand
I will not rest til Jerusalem is built
In Englands green and pleasant Land.
Note: [1] These lyrics are Blake's dedicatory quatrains from Milton, published in 1804. Later renamed as Jerusalem, they became a famous church hymn.
04. Kurious Oranj
(Smith, ME/Hanley, S/Wolstencroft)
6:21
Pained and intense, man
They were inquiring.
They were curious orange...
They rode over peasants like you, they rode over peasants like you,
And their horses loved them too, and their horses loved them too.
They Were Kurious Orange. They Were Curious Orange.
They built the world as we know it, all the systems you traverse.
Rode slipshod over all dumbshits.
They were curious orange...
They freed the Blacks too.
They built church in one day, man,
Amish
They were curious orange...
Their clothes were cool.
Paved way for atom bomb--didn't know.
They made the Jews go to school.
They made Hitler laugh in pain.
They sent missionary girls to Arab states, and the sun-baked men
did drool.
They were curious orange...
They made Hitler laugh in pain.
They turned Napoleon over and didn't know.
They invented birth control
They were invulnerable to cool.
They were curious orange
They were beyond Ooobenblief
They were primo efficient to a man.
They were Stuyvestant smoking.
They were the Reformation spring
And everybody in the world turned Reformation blue.
They were invulnerable to cool
And everybody in the world...
And they were inquiring.
They were positively deranged and they were curious orange.
They were curious orange...
05. Wrong Place, Right Time
(Smith, ME)
2:54 (CD 2:52)
Wrong place right time
I used to think I could do what I wanted to
Right time for me alone
Walk the streets of complete full homes
Wrong place, but I'm bound
To stick with what I intend to see through
See you, in wrong place
Right time but there's miles in between
I keep on knocking but there's no bugger in
I have to sing gothic, boo hoo
See me, a new reign
A new reign not to be forgotten
Right place, right time
Right time and Britain is mine
That day, on way
And all peasants will know Oranj
Peasants smile: big shine
Very happy under rule of Oranj
You can whine under rule of Oranj
Mike Clarke: sez I bastard
He is deranged, I am William of Oranj
Go insane in Holland!
I can't wait to taste anthrax turf again
Big Wren: homage Oranj
I an Oranj I have paid dues to the one
Who's #1 in heaven
As in Heaven so in Britain
(By Oranj I am Oranj I am one)
Can't dance can't sing
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
Can't dance can't sing
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
Can't dance can't sing
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
Can't dance can't sing
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
Cursed forever is William of Oranj
06. C.D. Win Fall 2080 AD
(Smith, ME/Schofield)
2:45 (CD 4:41)
Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Appreciated - guy's
Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Check the record
Check the guy's rock record
[WIN FALL CD
WIN FALL CD]
William william
William William
William william
William William etc.
Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Appreciated
WIN FALL CD
Appreciated
WIN FALL CD
William william etc.
Appreciated
And they say:
Rock the records etc.
WIN FALL CD
William william
Lord Guide me Soft etc.
07. Yes, O Yes
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
3:34 (CD 3:25)
Yes
Stretch
Stretch
The god you reject
Makes ours the best [1]
Oh! Ye swivel-heads
Burn from ashes
An ordure from this planet
that could not be extinguished
Angelic devil-sun
[...] good natured barracking
Children cross here
Both day and night
Angelic devil-sun
Yes O Yes
(And that's what you get when you join the M. Clark School of
Soccer Coaching School: Enraged and inflamed with torment.)
Note: [1] A play on the British TV advertisement for John West fish: "It's the fish we reject that makes ours the best!"
08. Van Plague?
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
4:56
From over the ocean came plague
Via the ocean - plague came
Plague came & we're not the same
All around is pure tension
Beliefs and tears now & again
From where has this great sadness came
From sou'west flew plague
From northwest plague came
I laughed at chicks with frustration
Fear of plague has sent us home
For love at least of our dear mum
Father takes it in his stride
Says 'back in the closet, son'
Was it ocean brought the plague?
Over the ocean came plague
Plague came, nothing is the same
All there is is death and pain
Hearts now broken on our beach
[Love disolved as they do up]
Love dissolved by Haitian sun
Did South Atlantic bring plague?
What evil ocean brought plague?
Plague flew up from an ocean
From satan's tree and his baboon
A body's waste 'neath a gibbous moon
Rancid kid drowned in lagoon
From still blue ocean came plague
From Caribbean plague came
Plague came in that Satan made
And our friends became deranged
Secret glamrock, gleeful hat
We stock Far Corporation
Glamrock family leisure zone
It was an evil plague
They sparked up and they built the boat
Put wind in its grim sail
Bringing plague and our peril
Bringing plague and our peril
09. Bad News Girl
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
5:22
[What you say is true, bad news girl, is bad news girl]
Insistent girl
I'd appreciate
Not is stuff
Hot stuff girl
Hot stuff girl
After troubled place
Is talking to you
But I'm acclimatized
To your mind
What you say is true
Hot stuff girl
What you say is true
But
Jaded lust and tiresomeness
Are not what I want to look at
Hot stuff girl
Hot stuff girl
Plenty people keep you occupied
Wet sex'll keep you anaethetized
Hot stuff girl
You got a big [..]
But plenty people make it all right
For hot stuff girl
Goodbye my dear
Goodbye my dear
Goodbye my dear
And you're doing well
For bad news girl
You're doing well
Bad news girl
Bad news girl
It's hot stuff girl
It's hot stuff girl
Your bad news girl
Though the peole make it alright
For bad news girl
Your bad news girl
It's hot stuff girl
It's hot stuff girl
Your bad news girl
Your doing fine for bad news girl
But your bad news girl
Bad news girl
I see you over the hill
Bad news girl
But your bad news girl
Bad news girl
It's hot stuff girl
Your bad newsgirl
Bad news girl
Bad news girl
But your bad news girl
It's hot stuff girl
I wish you well
I see you over the hill
Bad news girl
10. Cab It Up!
(Smith, ME)
4:54
Cabbing it uptown
You're moving it uptown
You taxi it uptown uptown
And you're moving it southwest
You're cabbing it uptown
You're moving up sideways sideways
And you're cabbing it uptown uptown
Cabbing it uptown
Your business friend
Your business friend's Australian
And when he comes it's Gotterdamerung!
But you're cabbing it uptown
You're moving up south now
You're moving it uptown uptown
Sideways sideways
Main strips! Main strips!
People going, people going
Moving it uptown
And locked in the door bins
Slowly slowly
Jump in! Jump in!
You're cabbing it uptown uptown
But you know the best, Dan
I dunno where I am
I feel like crying
But cabbing it uptown
You're moving up sideways
Moving up slowly
You're cabbing it uptown
(Taxi! .....)
You'd better cab it up slowly
Moving in circles
A Shepherd's Bush man
Eats from a can
He taxi it southwest southwest
He moving it uptown uptown
Uptown Uptown
You'd better cab it up slowly
You'd better taxi it slowly
You'd better cab it slowly
You'd better cab it up
Jump in! Jump in!
Michael! Michael!
(LP side 1: tracks 1-5; LP side 2: tracks 6-10)
The cassette and CD versions included the bonus tracks:
11. Guide Me Soft
(Smith, ME)
2:15
12. Last Nacht
(Smith, ME/Rogers)
3:56
13. Big New Priest
(Smith, ME/Scanlon/Hanley, S/Schofield)
3:08
(Cassette side 1: tracks 1-5, track 11; side 2: tracks 6-10, tracks 12-13)
(CD: tracks 1-5, track 11, tracks 6-10, tracks 12-13)
The CD versions of tracks 3, 5, 6 & 7 are live versions of the songs from performances of the "I Am Curious, Orange" ballet at The King's Theatre, Edinburgh which ran from 15-20 August 1988.
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Brix Smith - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Marcia Schofield - keyboards
Simon Wolstencroft - drums
Produced by: Ian Broudie and Mark E Smith
Engineered by: CJ, Dian Barton and Cenzo Townshend
Cover photography: Kevin Cummins and Richard Haughton
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Suite 16, Rochdale and The King's Theatre, Edinburgh mid-late 1988.
The LP has a brief uncredited excerpt of track 12 (1:04) at the end of side 2. Title oddities: track 1 is called New Big Prize on the record label; track 6 is 2080 AD on the LP, but 2088 AD on cassette and CD. The CD was re-pressed in 1990 and 1997 as a budget price release with a different catalogue number (BBL96CD), but the tracklisting and cover artwork remained the same as the original CD. The album was remastered and released as part of the 2013 5 CD box set, 5 Albums.
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Overseas releases
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The US CD release on Beggars Banquet/RCA (9582-2-H) follows the UK LP tracklisting rather than the extended UK CD tracklisting.
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