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Kicker Conspiracy
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Original UK release
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First released 19 September 1983 on Rough Trade Double 7": RT143
01. Kicker Conspiracy
(Smith)
4:21
Kicker, Kicker Conspiracy
Kicker, Kicker Conspiracy
J. Hill's satanic reign [1]
Ass-lickers King O'Team
Kicker, Kicker Conspiracy x 2
In the marble halls of the charm school
How flair is punished
Under Marble Millichip, the F.A. broods [2]
On how flair can be punished
Their guest is a Euro-State magnate
Corporate-ulent
How flair is punished
Kicker, Kicker Conspiracy x 4
In the Blues Club, George Best does rule [3]
How flair is punished
His downfall was a blonde girl, but that's none of your business!
Kicker, Kicker Conspiracy x 4
Former fan at the bus stop
Treads on the ball at his feet, in the christmas rush
And in his hands, two lager cans
Talks to himself. At the back. At the top.
What are the implications of the club unit?
Plastic, Slime, Partitions, Cocktail, Zig-Zag, Tudor Bar
Pat McGatt. Pat McGatt, the very famous sports reporter is
talking......there
FANS! ! ! "Remember, you are abroad!
Remember the police are rough!
Remember the unemployed!
Remember my expense account!
HOT DOGS AND SEAT FOR MR. HOGG !!
HOT DOGS AND SEAT FOR MR. HOGG!!!
AAAAAANNNNDDD HIS GROTTYSPAWN! ! ! !
Lurid brochures for ground unit
Our style is punished
Kicker, Kicker Conspiracy x 5
Remember! don't collect with the rough
Kicker, Kicker Conspiracy
Kicker, lets swell the facilities
Kicker Conspiracy x 8
Notes:
[1] Jimmy Hill - BBC TV presenter on Match Of The Day
[2] Sir Bert Millichip - Chairman of the British Football Association 1981-1996.
[3] The Blues Club was the Manchester City supporters club bar at Maine Road. George Best - 60's soccer icon - played for Manchester United, City's arch rivals, but he was still revered for his style and brilliance. Mark E Smith has said on UK TV that even though he's a City fan he often went with mates to watch United just so he could see Best play.
02. Wings
(Smith/Hanley, S/Hanley, P)
4:33
Day by day
The moon gains on me
Day by day
The moon gains on me
Purchased pair of flabby wings
I took to doing some HOVERING
Here is a list of incorrect things
HOVERED mid-air outside a study
An academic kneaded his chin
sent in the dust of some cheap magazines
His academic rust, could not burn them up
Recruited some gremlins
To get me clear of the airline routes
I paid them off with stuffing from my wings
They had some fun with those cheapo airline snobs
The stuffing loss made me hit a timelock
I ended up in the eighteen sixties
I've been there for one hundred and twenty five years
A small alteration of the past can turn time into space
Ended up under Ardwick Bridge
With some veterans from the U.S. Civil War
They were under Irish patronage
We shot dead a stupid sergeant
but I got hit in the crossfire
The lucky hit made me hit a time lock
But, when I got back
The place I made the purchase, no longer exists
I'd erased it under the bridge
Day by day
The moon came towards me
By such things
The moon came towards me
So now I sleep in ditches
And hide away from nosey kids
The wings rot and feather under me
The wings rot and curl right under me
A small alteration of the past
Can turn time into space
Small touches can alter more than a mere decade
Wings...
03. Container Drivers
(Riley/Scanlon/Hanley, S/Hanley, P/Smith)
3:10
Net cap. of 58 thousand pounds
They sweat on their way down
Grey ports with customs bastards
Hang around like clowns the
Uh-containers and their drivers
Bad indigestion
Bad bowel retention
Speed for their wages
Suntan, torn short sleeves
Look at a car park for two days
Look at a grey port for two days
Train line, stone and grey
This is not their town
Big cigars come out of the ground
Sweat on their way down
F. Jack's a distant relation
Communists are just part time workers
And there's no thanks
From the loading bay ranks
Look at a car park for two days
Look at a grey port for two days
Train line, stone and grey
RO-RO roll on roll off
The container drivers
Speed for their wages
Uh-containers
Uh-and their drivers
04. New Puritan
(Riley/Scanlon/Hanley, S/Smith)
3:22
The grotesque peasants stalk the land
And deep down inside you know everybody wants to like big companies
Bands send tapes to famous apes
Male slags, male slates, famous apes
[?] water cater now grim thoughts
The whole country is post-gramme
Echoes of the past
All hail the new puritan
Righteous maelstrom, cook one
And all hard-core fiends
Will die by me
And all decadent sins
Will reap discipline
New puritan
This is the grim reefer
The snap at the end of the straw
With a high grim quota
Your star karma, Jim
New puritan
New puritan
The conventional is now experimental
The experimental is now conventional
It's a dinosaur cackle
A pteradactyl cackle
In LA a drunk is sick on Gene Vincent's star on Hollywood Boulevard
Ha-ha ha-ha
Stripping takes off in Britain's black spots
The Kensington white rastas run for cabs
This I have seen
New puritan
In Britain the scream of electric pumps in a renovated pub
Your stomach swells up before you get drunk
The bars are full of male slags
At 10:35 they play "Send in the Clowns" once
Why don't you ask your local record dealer how many bribes he took today?
What do you mean "What's it mean? What's it mean?"?
"What's it mean? What's it mean?"
New puritan
New puritan
Hail the new puritan
Out of hovel, cum-coven, cum-oven
And all hard-core fiends
Will die by me
And all decadent sins
Will reap discipline
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan
New pur...it... an
New puritan...[?]
I curse the self-copulation
Of your lousy record collection
New puritan says "Coffee table LPs never breathe"
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan says...
[?]
New puritan
Discordian
New puritan
New puritan
New puritan
(7" 1 side 1: track 1; side 2: track 2)
(7" 2 side 1: track 3; side 2: track 4)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Paul Hanley - drums
Karl Burns - drums
Produced by: Steve Parker and Mark E Smith (tracks 1-2); John Sparrow (tracks 3-4)
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Recording info & notes
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Tracks 1-2 recorded in London mid 1983. Tracks 3-4 recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studio 4, London on 16 September 1980.
Tracks 3 and 4 were from John Peel session #3.
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