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The Infotainment Scan
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Original UK release
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First released 26 April 1993 on Cog Sinister via Permanent LP: PERMLP12; cassette: PERMMC12; and CD: PERMCD12
01. Ladybird (Green Grass)
(Bush/Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft)
3:59
And there's a big concert going down in this town
People cannot see society had broken down
I sat upon the green grass but it just brought me down
And the wife said 'get up' and it just brought me round
Fly ladybird, get right outta town
Use your transparent wings
Ladybird fly, fly ladybird
Green grass was purple black and speckled all around
Round the ring, this Croat town
The gas was obnoxious
It made me settle down, so I sat down
And the guy said 'get up' and it just brought me down
Fly ladybird, ladybird flee
Get right outta town, use your transparent wings
Above the leaping flames, get right outta here
Flee ladybird, ladybird fly
Pomerania is burning down.
Your family is gone, shot dead
Get right out of it
See the epaulette
Death: to let
Small change attached
I thought it was there but it just brought me down
Ripped the magazine open, it brought me round
Green grass was clear in the boundary zone
Grass faded into Wimpy brick in the ground
Mother's somewhere in Pomerania, but Pomerania is burning down
Ein kleine meisterwork, settled in my bones
Fly! Fly ladybird
Get right off the ground
Use your transparent wings
Get right outta here.
02. Lost In Music
(Edwards/Rodgers)
3:49
Le money il sur le table
Il money il sur la table
The palace of excess leads to the palace of access
Hideaway!
I'm lost in music
Feel so alive
Hideaway
sur la table
I'm lost in music
Caught in a trap
No looking back
Le money il sur la tableau
Brick house refurbishment of pubs in the hideaway.....
I'm lost in music
Caught in a trap
And there's no looking back
I'm lost in music
I'm lost in music
Feel so alive
I quit my ten-to-five
I'm lost in music
I'm lost in music
Lost in music
Hideaway
Snag table top, snag
Dip dip refurbishment of pubs
In the hideaway
And then I heard a voice say
You're lost in music
No turning back
Caught in a trap
You're lost in music
I'm lost in music
Caught in a trap
And there's no looking back
I'm lost in music
L'argent est sur la table, (the money is on the table)
Pris au piege, (trapped)
Inutile de regarder en arriere, (It's useless to look behind you)
Perdu dans la musique, (lost in music)
Cretin, va te faire foutre! (Asshole, fuck you!)
I'm lost in music
Feel so alive
I quit my ten-to-five
I'm lost in music
03. Glam-Racket
(Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith)
3:12
Stop eating all that chocolate
Eat salad instead
In fact, you're a half-wit from somewhere or other
Why don't you bog off back to Xanadu in Ireland
Glam Rick
Don't try to cheat me
I'm fragile
You hang around with camera crews in shell-suits
You lecture on sweets
You read Viz comic
Glam Rick
You are bequeathed in suede
You are entrenched in suede
Glam Rick
You've got celluloid in your genes dad
You are Glam Rick
You've cut my income by one third
You are working on a video project
You hog the bathroom
And never put your hand in your pocket
Glam Rick
You're Glam Rick
You're paging the [Malagna] in Spain
But can't read between the lines
Your price, cut down is amazing
You're one of the best songs I've ever heard by Stephen King
Glam Rick
Rhinestone
Your Clearasil produces Richthofen rashes,
Sideboard-like on mountains
Clearasil is in conjunction
Shadrach, the shock
Glam Rick
You post out sixty-page computer printouts
On the end of forests
All the above will come back to you
And confirm you as a damn pest
Glam Rick
You're Glam Rick
04. I'm Going To Spain
(Bent)
3:27
I've sold my car, thrown in my job, I'm 34 years old
I think it's time I saw the world, and not Australia
I've sold my car thrown in my job I'm 34 years old
I think it's time I saw the world coz I hate the cold and rain and grey
I'm going to Spain
Cousin Norman had a real fine time last year
He said it doesn't rain
I hope I can quickly learn the language yeah
I hope I can quickly learn the language
And the factory floor presented me with some tapes of Elton John
I hope it might keep me company but I hate the goo- goo-goo-goodbyes
Coz I'm going to Spain
Cousin Norman had a real fine time last year
I hear it doesn't rain
I hope I can quickly learn the language yeah
I hope I can quickly learn the language yeah
My mother cried last Friday night
When I said that I'll be gone
She packed it up, and then cashed in her premium bonds
And I'm going to Spain
Cousin Norman had a real fine time last year
They say it doesn't rain
I hope I can quickly learn the language yeah
I hope I can quickly learn the language
I'm going to Spain
I'm going to Spain
Better rate culture there boy
I'm going to Spain
Cousin Norman had a real fine time last year
They say it doesn't rain
I hope I can quickly learn the language
05. It's A Curse
(Scanlon/Smith)
5:19
It's a curse
Well thy forsooth
Who is that interesting hack over there?
By Gad, verily
Cracked curse
disliked
burdened
It's a curse
And am not unguilty of using it
"You, your tone is....
You tone of everybody"
Trying to bolt out of
Trying to get over
Operation mind fuck
"I do not like your tone.
It has ephemeral whinging [1] aspects."
It's a curse. I am not unguilty of using it.
Waiting for you to f....
Trying to get out of
Tryna get out of
Waiting
They are waiting for you, bitterly, for you to fall over.
It's a curse.
Down their long egg breath
Cheap shaving lotion days
Their sandwiches stashed under their side seats
Their froglike chins ready to burst
I tell you, it's a curse, it's a burden
Trying to get over bargain vampires
In shops
I tell you it's a curse
"You, you tone is...."
Trying to get out of
It's a curse
Shafted over
It's a curse
It's a burden
That's burden
Operation Mind-Fuck
Look back bores
Bach and Wagner
All you really need is a good Schwartz
It's a curse
Balti and Vimto and Spangles [2] were always crap,
regardless of the look back bores.
It's a curse.
Shafted over.
Trying to bolt out of.
Waiting for you.
It's a curse.
Notes:
[1] Northern English slang for whining
[2] Balti = a type of Indian cuisine; Vimto = a fruit-flavoured concentrated beverage; Spangles = a brand of English candy
06. Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
(Scanlon/Smith)
4:27
Paranoid man
In mid 30s
at the height of paranoia
at the zenith of his powers
By bed, replica shooter
zenith dissolving
by his bed replica shooter
in the zenith of his powers
When girls pass, puts his head down, in the street
His neighbors now are listening to this
Shakes in the chemist's
While buying his vits
Puts his head down
when girls pass in the street
Shakes in the chemist
Paranoid man in his late 30s
32, 45
Reaches its summit
Male, mid 30s, white, paranoia
Goes down to the dance
Going down fast.
No heebies, creepies
or hallucinogenics
It's the height of paranoia
Male, white, mid-to-late 30s
Serial Number 54129
Going down to the dance
Going down fast
Leather jacket, baggy black pants
Very clever
Not as good as it was at 2:30
this afternoon
Nostalgia
Spangles
Late to mid 30s
Goes down to the dance
and drooped mental inertia
Mid 30s man in the grip of paranoia
Just like I told ya
Prefers karaoka.
Cheap shit half-dollar man
The sky calendar,
bar, home,
speculates
07. Service
(Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith)
4:11
Why do you have a cloud in your eye?
Walked downstairs
Got my hat and my corny brown leather jacket
Streets were grey and clean for a change
Must have been the rain
Thought transference
And this man in digs with me would spit out
two or three teeth a night on the floor
Winter is here, unlike yourself
Cold, pulled my shirt up
Service
Kicked the leaves
Learning about time,
Time of the vulperines
Time of the wolverines
They sit rotting, the leaves
Kick the brown branches, it is here
I came home and found I could say the word "entrepreneur"
and my problem began
Service
(Every man wants to be what he is not.)
At my feet, one who laughs at anything.
And at my head, one that laughs at nothing
And I'm just in-between
This day's portion
Service
(You would not like it if you knew it)
(Why you have tears in your eyes from infotainment?)
Winter is here
I've got a witch on my left shoulder
My future's here
Now I will kick the broken branches
They're this day's portion of this day's portion
Didn't want to wake up and learn,
I've learnt the word 'entrepreneur"
Wandered around, found out,
Didn't want to say the word, roll it around in your mouth
Every man jack wants to be what he is not.
Service.
Little boys are taking over
They mumble through the grass
There are not fit to be in the company of vulperines and wolverines
Too many heads knocking about.
Service.
This day's portion, this day's portion.
Why do you have a cloud in your eye from infotainment?
08. The League Of Bald-Headed Men
(Hanley, S/Smith)
4:07
You know when you end up in some sort of a cine-complex
And the person next to you is someone you hate?
Well well well well well well well well with me,
I end up like that,
All around and inside left.
All through the walls
It suppurates.
Look it up!
I'm immobile.
Is your house for sale?
And Davey's just got out of his cell -
Where have you been this time?
Your lives are beyond the pale.
Walk the main drag, splayed.
See the blue baseball hatted, baseball blue hatted
School friends, pop mobs
Male loafers, business affairs advisers and members of the band.
Suppurates, look it up!
And every day it's my pleasure to meet
The great league of bald-headed men.
Your friends, pop mobs, first wives, ex-loafers
And every day it is my pleasure to meet
The league of bald-headed men.
Baseball hatted, blue capped.
[You scored passages to assuage their post-latent sexual baldy alopecia] [1]
And every day it's my pleasure to meet
The great league of bald-headed men.
Note: [1] this line is in the 'League Moon Monkey Mix' version only
09. A Past Gone Mad
(Bush/Smith/Wolstencroft)
4:19
Serial killers were always a bore in my book,
Along with Spangles and soccer books.
Rid us of old fogeys
Scuttling and swerving over the roads
Comma,
Kids in pubs.
Passable
Why is Pete Gabriel always following us?
And before the grub comes a moralist,
Dissonance of infotainment
A past gone mad!
Alive and well, he is on all channels
[Kiki Dee]
Dwelling in craven environment
If I ever end up like Ian McShane [1] slit my throat with a kitchen tool
And if I ever end up like U2 slit my throat with a garden vegetable
A past gone mad
Passable
Take a look back
Rear-view mirror: it's all behind you
A present gone mad
Tra-tra-la, follow, track that lava
Past, present gone mad.
Passable
A past gone mad.
Note: [1] English actor in TV series "Lovejoy"
10. Light/Fireworks
(Smith)
3:46
Cold, cold, you can't control
[computer voice: Light up a cigarette, cos it might be your last.]
Fireworks, darkness
Cascading with fireworks.
Fireworks, can't read it
Fireworks, can't fathom it
Fireworks.
Coming up to the dawn here
What are those burnt embers
It's fireworks, smouldering
It's fireworks, cascading in the sky
From 8 till 5 the morning,
Fireworks
Fear cracked, fear cracked
Splitting Chinese sky open,
Chinese sky at night
Exploding trees at night
Over rivers and bridges
Fireworks
Fireworks.
Fear craft
(LP and cassette side 1: tracks 1-5; side 2: tracks 6-10)
The CD version included the bonus tracks:
11. Why Are People Grudgeful?
(Gibson/Perry)
4:31
12. League Moon Monkey Mix
(Hanley, S/Rogers/Smith)
4:35
(CD: tracks 1-12)
Track 12 is a remix of track 8.
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Simon Wolstencroft - drums
Dave Bush - keyboards
Produced and mixed by: Rex Sargeant (tracks 1, 4-9, 11); Mark E Smith (tracks 2, 10); Simon Rogers (tracks 3, 12)
Cover artwork: Pascal Le Gras
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Suite 16, Rochdale late 1992/early 1993.
There are different mixes/edits of tracks 2, 3 & 11 on the Why Are People Grudgeful? single. A 4 track promo 12" was issued, containing: The Re-Mixer / Lost In Music / A Past Gone Mad / The League Of Bald Headed Men.
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Overseas releases
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Released in the USA on 17 May 1993 on Matador Records via Atlantic on LP (OLE-055 1), cassette (OLE-055 4) and CD (OLE-055 2). Same tracklisting as the UK release. A US promotional CD was issued in May 1993 on Matador Records via Atlantic (PRCD5094) with the following tracks: Ladybird (Green Grass) / Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room / Free Range / The Birmingham School Of Business School / I'm Frank / So What About It? / Bombast / L.A. / Rouche [sic] Rumble (all album tracks except Rowche Rumble - live Norwich 2/6/84 according to the label, but in fact from Woolwich, 6 February 1986). A further US promotional CD was issued in mid 1993 on Matador Records via Atlantic (PRCD5213) to promote the 1993 US tour, it contained a single track from the album: Lost In Music. (see image gallery for promos).
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1999 Artful reissue
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Reissued on 5 July 1999 on Artful Records CD: ARTFULCD22 with the original CD tracklisting and cover.
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2006 Sanctuary reissue
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Reissued on 23 January 2006 on Castle, a label of Sanctuary Records Group, CD: CMQDD1227 (2 CDs) with the original CD tracklisting on CD1 plus the following bonus tracks on CD2:
01. Ladybird (Green Grass) (Scanlon/Smith/Hanley, S/Bush/Wolstencroft) 4:05
02. Strychnine (Roslie) 2:54
03. Service (Smith/Hanley, S/Scanlon) 3:36
04. Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room (Smith/Scanlon) 4:19
05. Glam Racket (Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith) 3:34
06. War (Blegvad/Moore) 2:36
07. 15 Ways (Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith) 2:51
08. A Past Gone Mad (Bush/Smith/Wolstencroft) 4:35
09. Why Are People Grudgeful? (Gibson/Perry) 4:28
10. Glam Racket (Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith) 3:33
11. The Re-Mixer (Scanlon/Smith) 6:03
12. Lost In Music (Edwards/Rodgers) 3:50
13. A Past Gone Mad (alternate version) (Bush/Smith/Wolstencroft) 4:38
14. Instrumental outtake (Hanley, S/Smith) 3:43
15. Service (instrumental demo) (Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith) 4:41
16. Glam Racket (instrumental demo) (Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith) 3:17
17. Lost In Music (mix 3) (Edwards/Rodgers) 4:39
18. Lost In Music (mix 7) (Edwards/Rodgers) 4:35
19. Lost In Music (mix 14) (Edwards/Rodgers) 4:29
Tracks 1-4 come from John Peel radio session #16; tracks 5-8 come from Mark Goodier radio session; tracks 9-12 come from the Why Are People Grudgeful? single; track 13 comes from the Various Artists compilation RCD Classic Rock Collection Vol 10; tracks 14-19 are previously unreleased outtakes, demos and alternate mixes.
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