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Extricate
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Original UK release
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First released 19 February 1990 on Cog Sinister via Fontana LP: 842.204-1; cassette: 842 204-4; and CD: 842 204-2
01. Sing! Harpy
(Beddington/Smith)
5:24
The harpy was the tops
Whose hair contained some red
Thin white skeleton
Just too good in bed.
He mother from the circus
Put her on Junior Show Time
Her father was much worse
Can't put why in this line
And in the little village
She was without malice
She left the moors behind her
And the beige heather
Packed her placky [1] bag
With blocks of brown cannabis.
She took a lousy Wednesday
Turned it into cold Spring
She got taller by the minute
She could sell you anything
And the morning after
I was quite astonished
She gripped me like a hawk
Her talons were quite famished
Ascend harpy
Sing harpy
Descend harpy
Give me harpy
Note: [1] Slang for plastic bag
02. I'm Frank
(Scanlon/Smith)
3:13
Now I've got a lot to say now baby
But it doesn't concern me today now baby
Hello
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Give it to me gently baby
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Hello
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Give it to me gently baby
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Shh
Ahh
Unh Unh Anh Anh
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Gimme gimme gimme it gently baby
Gimme gimme gimme it gently baby
Just gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby
Gimme gimme gimme it gently baby
Note: MES quote about this song: "That was Craig's tribute to Frank Zappa. Now we can all laugh about this, but that was his attempt to be Frank therefore I've entitled it "I'm Frank"
03. Bill Is Dead
(Scanlon/Smith)
4:40
Last week after "Dynasty"
I had crows feet under my eyes
Paid two days for getting high
Freezing
Wheezing
Got pasted in a bar
I hope I've got the number
These are finest times of my life
This is the greatest time of my life
This is the greatest time of my life
These are the biggest times of my life
But just lately seeing you
I rise a.m. off pink sheets
I am renewed
I am aglow
Red brick and green is the streets
You dressed today as if for riding school
Your legs are so cool
Came twice
You thrice
These are the greatest times of my life
04. Black Monk Theme Part I
(The Monks)
4:35
Hey woman hey you you do you know why I hate you baby?
Because you make make me hate you baby
You maladjusted little monkey you
I hate you with a passion you know I do baby
You know why I hate you baby?
Because you make me make me
The bastard had a birthday
Had a power drill
Stone built renovate stone blast screw it up
Too ill, you it's up to you baby
I'm coming
Hey bug-bug-bug-bug-buggerlugs
You cranky mare and short-arsed no no no
I'm coming
Firm guitar
Hey the bastard's had it
But there no how a power drill
Dog bark renovate stone blast do it up do it
With BTO
I'll do make grub tissues ray way
Seep to sleep
The drill scaffold starts
Power drill dog bark renovate stone blast
Screw it up to do it
I'm coming
Because you make me hate you baby
Black Monk Theme
05. Popcorn Double Feature
(English/Weiss)
3:43
Everybody's going through changes
Everybody's got a bag of his own
Everybody's talking about places
That can only be found in the greater unknown
People are dying
The babies are crying
Don't nobody care at all?
There's love and disaster
And good things come after
Just follow the paths along
Popcorn double feature
The whole world's a funny farm
That man is your teacher
No need to be alarmed
Music's coming out of the woodwork
Sounds so strange, nobody sleeps
I met a little man on the corner
Waving a flag and making a speech
Coffee each morning
Don't park or, nor warning
They tow your machine away
There's so much confusion
That's built on illusion
What's making the music play?
Popcorn double feature
The whole world's a funny farm
That man is your teacher
No need to be alarmed
NOT MUCH
Coffee each morning
No popcorn a-warning
They tow your machine away
There's love and disaster
But good things come after
What's making the music play
Popcorn double feature
Popcorn double feature
Popcorn double feature
Popcorn double feature
Popcorn double feature
Popcorn double feature
Popcorn double feature world
06. Telephone Thing
(Black/More/Smith)
4:11
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
07. Hilary
(Smith)
2:30
Hilary
Where's the sixty quid you borrowed off me for the gas?
I won't give you a kiss
Hilary
Hey Hilary
'New Faces' on Saturday at six
Brought you back to me
Hilary
I'm sure it was you in the new Audi
Outside Sainsbury's
Hilary
Remember when you needed three caps of speed
To get out of bed
And now you're on ecstasy
Hilary
With your daft African pop
And that wine you call bull's blood
Hilary
I thank the lord that you still don't live next to me
Hilary
08. Chicago, Now!
(Smith)
5:59
Do you work hard?
Do you work hard?
You don't!
You don't!
You don't! Chicago, now!
Do you work hard?
Do you try hard?
You don't. Chicago, now!
All is commission time
Commission C.T. time
Set down, setting down
C.T C.T. time
Chicago, now!
Work hard.
Do you try hard?
Dear crew
Try hard.
Chicago, now!
That's it: you don't.
That's it: you don't.
Chicago, now!
Chicago, now!
Step down
Setting down, just setting down
See their butt all over the street
You just go up and meet
Just setting down
Chicago now
Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho
09. The Littlest Rebel
(Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft)
3:36
There's loads of people
Trying to suss out the scene
Sniffing about and sticking
Their noses in
Rebel
But she was the littlest rebel
Blue suit with nylon weave
She wears jet black high heels
She throws planks down the well
She's the littlest rebel
Rebel
But she was the littlest rebel
She consigns them all to hell
She's the littlest rebel
Her tormentors jet past in Nissans
She says are those cars?
Are those shoes?
She consigns them all to hell
She's the littlest rebel
Hips like Shirley Temple
She's the littlest rebel
And she doesn't kiss and tell
She's the littlest rebel
Rebel
But she was the littlest rebel
A sophisticate plays truant
She's the littlest rebel
And she doesn't kiss and tell
Cause she's the littlest rebel
Well she's the littlest rebel
Rebel
And she was the littlest rebel
10. And Therein...
(Beddington/Smith)
2:53
You know by now the Lord lays hard trails
When you see that man outside in the bucketing rain
You picture it in your cozy home.
You think you've blown a fuse,
Don't know how to react
You don't know where it's at.
And therein lies the difference, and therein.... (x3)
They always say it comes in three and fours
And that it never rains, it just pours...
You think it's your fault
And you curse the moon
You go to the saloon
And therein lies the difference, and therein... (x3)
He turned the water into wine
And he insisted that we eat swine
And that's the sum of it
Why don't you come to grips?
Just take or leave it.
And therein lies the difference, and therein...
(LP side 1: tracks 1-5; LP side 2: tracks 6-10)
The cassette and CD versions included the bonus tracks:
11. Arms Control Poseur
(Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft)
4:44
12. Black Monk Theme Part II
(The Monks)
2:01
13. British People In Hot Weather
(Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft)
3:07
14. Extricate
(Hanley, S/Scanlon/Sherwood/Smith)
3:45
(Cassette side 1: tracks 1-5, tracks 11-12; side 2: tracks 6-10, tracks 13-14)
(CD: tracks 1-5, tracks 11-12, tracks 6-10, tracks 13-14)
Track 11, Arms Control Poseur, is an alternate version to the one that appears as a B-side on the Popcorn Double Feature single.
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Martin Bramah - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Marcia Schofield - keyboards, percussion
Simon Wolstencroft - drums
With:
Charlotte Bill - flute, oboe
Kenny Brady - fiddle
Craig Leon - vocals, organ
Cassell Webb - vocals
Mike Edwards - guitar
Produced and mixed by: Craig Leon (tracks 1-5, 7-8, 10; mix only track 13) ; Mark E Smith (tracks 4 & 10); Adrian Sherwood (tracks 9, 11, 13 & 14); Coldcut (Matt Black and Jonathan More) (tracks 6 & 12)
Cover artwork: Anthony Frost
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Southern Studios, London; Swanyard Studios, London; The Manor, Oxfordshire; Wool Hall, Somerset mid-late 1989.
M. Beddington was a pseudonym used by Martin Bramah for his composition credits. Different 4 track 12" promo samplers were released in the UK and USA (the released album was the same in both countries) - the UK sampler contained: I'm Frank / Telephone Thing / Bill Is Dead / Sing! Harpy; the US sampler contained: I'm Frank / The Funeral Mix / Chicago Now / Zandra (see image gallery for UK and US promo covers).
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1999 Voiceprint reissue
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Reissued on 12 October 1999 on Cog Sinister via Voiceprint CD: COGVP122CD with the original CD tracklisting and cover.
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2002 Voiceprint reissue
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Reissued on 9 December 2002 on Cog Sinister via Voiceprint CD: COGVP142CD with the original CD tracklisting and cover. 24 bit remastered from the original Fontana CD.
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2007 Universal reissue
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Reissued on 7 May 2007 on Fontana/Mercury Records, a Universal Music company, CD: 9847463 (2 CDs). The original LP tracklisting was on CD1, with the following bonus tracks on CD2:
01. Telephone Thing (extended) (Smith/Black/More) 4:21
02. Telephone Dub (Smith/Black/More) 4:26
03. British People In Hot Weather (Smith/Scanlon/Wolstencroft/Hanley, S) 3:08
04. Butterflies 4 Brains (Smith/Scanlon/Wolstencroft/Hanley, S) 4:16
05. Arms Control Poseur (single B-side) (Smith/Scanlon/Wolstencroft) 5:04
06. Arms Control Poseur (CD bonus track) (Smith/Scanlon/Wolstencroft) 4:45
07. Zandra (Smith/Beddington) 2:49
08. Black Monk Theme Pt. II (The Monks) 2:01
09. Extricate (Hanley, S/Scanlon/Sherwood/Smith) 3:46
10. Theme From Error-Orrori! (Smith/Beddington/Hanley, S/Wolstencroft) 4:13
11. Chicago Now (Smith) 5:34
12. Black Monk Theme (The Monks) 4:06
13. Hilary (Smith) 2:23
14. Whizz Bang (Smith/Beddington/Hanley, S/Wolstencroft) 3:01
Tracks 1-3 come from the Telephone Thing single; tracks 4-5 & 7-8 come from the Popcorn Double Feature single; tracks 6 & 9 were bonus tracks on the original CD release; track 10 comes from the Various Artists compilation Home; tracks 11-14 come from John Peel radio session #13. There was a promotional sampler CD containing 3 tracks each from the reissues of Extricate, Shift-Work and Code: Selfish and also a promotional postcard (see image gallery).
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