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Cerebral Caustic
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Original UK release
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First released 27 February 1995 on Cog Sinister via Permanent LP: PERMLP30; cassette: PERMMC30; and CD: PERMCD30
01. The Joke
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
2:49
Go back go back
to your diseased-[WHUP!]-control room
Don't be don't be
nice about it
just spit it back
Why don't, ward off
why don't you be mature about it
in your grey raincoat
Off ward, ward off
The Joke
Violent food
descends over you
huh
Off ward, ward off
The Joke
The Joke
five years in a PC camp
Multicoloured sweets
in bottom of white sweet pack
The realization burns into my back
The Joke
Five years in a PC camp
The Joke
Violent food
descends over you
The Joke
The Joke
Five years in a PC camp
The Joke
Five years in a PC camp
The Joke
Five years in a PC camp
02. Don't Call Me Darling
(Smith, ME/Scanlon)
3:35
[first two lines whispered by Brix]
Don't call me darling
Don't call me darling
Harbouring on it
hates this
wants this
she hates this
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
The long black hair
of wretched blue bottle
darting all over
to no avail
I got zero tolerance
My head full
[I'll pack a wool swab]
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
People hate beauty
I cannot fathom it
They smell of oak panelling
voices thick with
Bouncing Jackson
with stupidity
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
Soon there will be dancing
around the queue strippy
high and cheap
why do people hate beauty
I cannot fathom it
a bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
...brown suit...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
...bouncing...
>>Don't call me darling
..why...do...people...hate...
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't call me darling
>>Don't
>>call
>>me
>>darling
03. Rainmaster
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
3:27
TV man's tarantula
>>TV man
>>TV man
>>TV man
>>TV man
Rainmaster
Rainmaster
Copycats
this and that
what about copy cat familiars
and miserable witches
Rainmaker
[mumble]
[changes, all they see]
Rainmaster
Florida
Wildlife is under constant threat
>>TV man
>>TV man
>>TV man
>>TV man
Rainmaster
Rainmaster
Curserer of blights
once too often
in the ridiculous muggy envelope stained
Goin', you sorry fuck
>>TV man
>>TV man
On him >>TV man
>>TV man
Rainmaster
in Belgique
Rainmaster
in Basingstokes
Portaphone traffic
Maurique assistant crap
in hermitage
Rainmaster
in New York
Rainmaster
over cool green layered forest
interspersed
with hammers banging
fellas tapping slow
in hot morning
Silenced!
Rainmaster
in his b(r)enediction
smug in the task and knowledge
Cut to the quick
Rainmaster
whoop
Citadel
Florida 3-4-9 dot dot dot dot dot dot dot.
That's how far we go
04. Feeling Numb
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
2:45
Post-festivities
I'm feeling numb now
From remedies and Prozac
I'm kinda two-tone
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
Prozac
Don't touch that phone dial
Stick with kindred
Welcome in
I'm on automation
And family
Is cerebral caustic
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
(I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb)
Everything is broken
because of grist that curtails
Get the Western on
Stick with family
At the lodge
At the lodge
At the lodge
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
I'm feeling numb now
I'm feeling numb
I'm feeling numb now
Don't touch that phone dial
I'm feeling numb
Stick with kindred
(Feeling numb now)/At the lodge
(Feeling numb)/At the lodge
(Feeling numb now)
The grist that curtails
will make us strong
(Feeling numb)
And you'll be dead
before I'm born
PUH!
05. Pearl City
(Smith, ME/Burns/Bennett)
2:46
In Pearl City
Pearl City
No-one knows, no-one cares
about your world of stocks and shares
I don't need no riding crop
I don't need no roundabout stop
You're welcome to Pearl City
See the bank
Bright white trains
You old coots
retired early
At Pearl City
In Pearl City
Cappuccino and a slice of quiche
It's salad for the new educated 'teach'
Everything is gonna work out fine
They're sleepin' us in the lec-lecturer line
In Pearl City
In Pearl City
Ye over-counter drugs
Have left you totally bushwhacked
In Pearl City
We asked Vauxhall drivers
what they wanted from a garage
Did ya? Did ya?
At service center on the rock
Pearl City
I don't need a bird beggin at my knees
I don't need no riding crop
I don't need no roundabout stop
(Are you on the ball?)
Note: Inspired by the Pearl City Chinese restaurant in Manchester (still going in 2002).
06. Life Just Bounces
(Smith, ME/Hanley, S/Scanlon)
4:47
Doctor Boring had a relationship with the drug company too
And I am half related to the Softness Group PLC
On TV today
Someone claimed their dog
had been molested by a textile chemist
But life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
And life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
The perscription's filled but I'm unsure of its contents
I sit back with a tight lip
Retina amazed
But life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
And life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
And green grow the hedgerows along the walls
And I see that my problems are really small
[We're no rock group!]
Camera life, brown varnish, mauve
London is full of people leaving their homes
They got lack of length in their beds and in their rooms
And the cops say don't you dare leave your home
I'll tellya
Life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
And life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
And Doctor Boring says you are very ill
And your top-knot is in the region of your soul
I was in a vortex I was headed for a Fall
I'll tellya
Life just bounces so don't you get worried at all
And all music bounces so don't you get worried at all
07. I'm Not Satisfied
(Zappa)
2:56
Got no place to go
I'm tired of walking
Up and down the street all by myself
No love left for me to give
I try and try
But no one wants me the way I am
Why should I pretend I like
To roam from door to door
Maybe I'll just kill myself
I just don't care no more
Because
I'm not satisfied
Everything I've tried
I don't like the way
Life has been abusing me
Who would care if I was gone?
I never met no one who'd
Care if I was dead and gone
Who needs me to care for them?
Nobody needs me
Why should I just hang around?
Why should I just sit and watch
While the others smile?
I just wish that someone cared
If I was happy for a while
Because
I'm not satisfied
Everything I've tried
I don't like the way
Life has been abusing me
08. The Aphid
(Smith, ME/Hanley, S/Scanlon/Wolstencroft/Smith, B)
2:46
And who can ever forget this one?
Six times parking
Six, four
Form bar and six
Form a boxline
The aphid
The aphid
Bend down
Scratch around the carpet for insect
Get hook clamp
Stand up
Gel frame
Put insect in a jar
The aphid
Walk back two, three and four
Stop for a rest
Go back to scratch
The aphid
Hook clamp
Go back down
Scratch around the floor
Take hook clamp and put in jar
The aphid
Cover up with gel frame
Take two times four o o o one
UV gun back
Go back to the floor
Scratch around
Five, six supplied
The aphid
Bend right back
Form a boxline, sidecar
The aphid
Twenty times steps back
Frizzo
Get hook clamp
Turn to barn door
Retrieve kill frame
(Absolutely wonderful)
[Spoken, (not MES)]:
"Take six bottles of the six back, stand up straight, then bend down and
scratch the carpet for insects and, if you find any, put the insects into
the jar, than check the clamp on the jar and take six steps back. Ensure
the hook clamp is on the jar and that's the aphid."
09. Bonkers In Phoenix
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
6:02
[BRIX]
Veins on leaves
A cat of kings
A mouthful of seed
A strand of beads
An hour of lust
A bucket of trust
It's time to rest
My shiny things
Pull them off
Pull them off
Pull them off of me
Little one, please don't cry
Shiny things you just can't buy
Trying to fix
Isn't broken
Letting dust
Inside old swings
Turning to rust
My shiny things
Pull them off
Pull them off
Pull them off of me
Little one, please don't cry
Shiny things you just can't buy
Trying to fix
Isn't broken
Locked in dust
Insect wings
Turning to rust
My shiny things
Turning to rust
My shiny things
Pull them off
Pull them off
Pull them off of me
Little one, please don't dry
Shiny things you just can't buy
[MARK]
Bonkers at Phoenix
You never know, though, eh? eh?
That Glastonbury...
Would all people who want
Vegetarian burgers go on the left
And those who want meat burgers on the right
Carparking is available at Glastonbury Phoenix
Out of the back
You see me
Naughty wicker man, oogie man
You see me, oogie man
M. Riley
You mood swing
And from the day
Angles with you
Bonkers at Phoenix
10. One Day
(Smith, ME/Bush)
3:31
When I first met you
You didn't go anywhere
'Cept for the drama corporation
Of co-op theatre
Skirting from a course
Bovver boots on
Vacuum breath equals
We never close
But one day you'll find out
That you lost a good man
And one day you'll wake up
And find you lost a good man
Transparent or not
You'll never see my like again
I'm talkin about me
No malice
So transparent
When he walks
When he walks again
All reduced to cost-price
Manual for deceit
Indiscriminate take out
Indiscriminate give out
We never close
Never ever close
You're a snake pit
And one of these days you'll find out
That you lost a good man
And one of these days you'll wake up
And find you lost a good man
11. North West Fashion Show
(Smith, ME/Burns)
3:30
It is Hugh McSheepshagger
from Bolton
Next up, Mr. A. Ordinary from Whitefield
Next up, Mr. A. Ordinary from Whitefield
Judy's bastard offspring
We have Richard and Judy's bastard offspring
Baseball cap reversed
Next up, we have Mr. Stephen Hanley
Modelling the bald look
12. Pine Leaves
(Smith, ME/Burns/Hanley, S/Scanlon)
3:40
(They gave their lives during the occupation
Arranged at the end of Japan
It was not a concentration camp
Annihilation
A million dead here
Annihilation)
And still we believe
As ghost presence
How does it show a dream
As ghosts
Decide
I've heard the same
How does this end
They come from
They come from verdant albion
And still
Still they breathe
The corpor of this leaden leaf
Folding out with ghost
Censure
Still in the tub of side for bone shakes
These apes were once born
Fluid now
That's the truth
Drawn from the in-outlet
(One hundred thousand people perished there)
I still wish I could have seen you all
They lived thousand
The hills at dusk
Because they knew all the horrible
Culturations and evocations
Formulae
From verdant green-yellow puddles
Aesop
Purcell appears in the form of an angel
It's now
No good
Twice
(I want to wish you a happy journey back home)
(LP and cassette side 1: tracks 1-6; side 2: tracks 7-12)
(CD: tracks 1-12)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Brix Smith - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Simon Wolstencroft - drums
Dave Bush - keyboards
Karl Burns - drums, guitar, vocals
With:
Lucy Rimmer - vocals (track 5)
Produced by: Mark E Smith and Mike Bennett
Cover artwork: Pascal Le Gras
Sleeve layout: Ian Baldwin
Photographs: Valerie Philips
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded in London late 1994.
Track 6 is a new recording of the B-side from the White Lightning/The Dredger EP single.
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Overseas releases
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Released in Japan in 1995 on Permanent, distributed through Zero Corporation, CD: XRCN-7001. Original cover and tracklisting plus bonus tracks:
13. Middle Class Revolt (The Drum Club Prozac Mix) (Smith/Scanlon/Hanley, S) 7:13
14. Middle Class Revolt (The Drum Club Orange In The Mouth Mix) (Smith/Scanlon/Hanley, S) 7:51
Tracks 13-14 remixes by The Drum Club of the title track from the album Middle Class Revolt.
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1999 Artful reissue
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Reissued on 5 July 1999 on Artful Records CD: ARTFULCD24 with the original tracklisting and cover.
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2006 Sanctuary reissue
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Reissued on 13 March 2006 on Castle, a label of Sanctuary Records Group, CD: CMQDD1299 (2 CDs) with the original CD tracklisting on CD1 plus the following bonus tracks on CD2:
01. Glam Racket - Star (Smith, ME/Hanley, S/Scanlon) 3:23
02. Jingle Bell Rock (Beal/Boothe) 1:09
03. Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn/Wesley, Arrangement: Smith, ME) 3:10
04. Numb At The Lodge (Smith, ME/Smith, B) 3:06
05. One Day (Smith, ME/Bush) 3:36
06. Rainmaster (Smith, ME/Smith, B) 3:43
07. Feeling Numb (Smith, ME/Smith, B) 2:54
08. The Joke (Smith, ME/Smith, B) 2:49
09. Don't Call Me Darling (Smith, ME/Scanlon) 3:46
10. Pearl City (Smith, ME/Burns/Bennett) 3:00
11. Life Just Bounces (Smith, ME/Hanley, S/Scanlon) 4:58
12. I'm Not Satisfied (Zappa) 3:18
13. The Aphid (Smith, ME/Hanley, S/Scanlon/Wolstencroft/Smith, B) 2:56
14. Bonkers In Phoenix (Smith, ME/Smith, B) 6:14
15. One Day (Rex Sargeant Mix) (Smith, ME/Bush) 3:36
16. Bonkers In Phoenix (Alternate Mix) (Smith, ME/Smith, B) 6:21
17. Mark E Smith & Brix Smith promo interview 7:39
Tracks 1-4 come from John Peel radio session #18; tracks 5-14 are previously unreleased pre-release rough mixes; tracks 15-16 are previously unreleased alternate mixes; track 17 is a promotional interview that was recorded by Mark E Smith and Brix Smith to distribute to the press to promote the release of the album.
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