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Couldn't Get Ahead/Rollin' Dany
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Original UK release
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First released 14 June 1985 on Beggars Banquet 7": Beg134; and 12": Beg134T (released 21 June 1985)
01. Couldn't Get Ahead
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
2:35
Couldn't get ahead
I just couldn't get ahead
Come out of pub, the shop is closed
Come out of pub, Harry wants to know
When the next bus is
I said five or ten minutes
I had my change in my hands
The bus flashes past
My hands are cupped
Couldn't get ahead. I just couldn't get ahead.
In a week, earned money for month
Got all my jobs done
My eyelids were sick of it
Gist was I could sleep for a day?
But bad bills have no respect for a decent man's rest
Flopping on the doorstep
Outlined in color red
Couldn't get ahead. Just couldn't get ahead.
On an Asiatic plane with wings not of the grain
Toilet queue was endless
Couldn't get a beer
The hostesses were muslims
When I get in toilet
Light flashes: "Return to seat"
I feared withdrawal
And I feared beer was making sludge of my head
Couldn't get ahead. Just couldn't get ahead.
Now my problems are solved
It's a remedy of old
I pretend I'm blind you see
Put on some Armani clothes
And act like ET
Where I'm at is a cabbage patch
no longer strewn with weeds
Have a Ghandi at me
Colour mags wish me well
No more, no get ahead
Couldn't get ahead. Just couldn't get ahead.
02. Rollin' Dany
(Stein/Edwards)
2:25
Well everybody's talking about the working man
Nobody's talking about Rollin' Dany
Rollin' Dany
He was the rollin' man
Well Dan walked into the old dancehall
Told the woman he loved 'em all
Two six women did a dance and crawl
And I'm-a telling ya man
This cat'd fool 'em all
Rollin' Dany
He was the rollin' man
Go!
And three four five six cats linked up against the wall
And m..m..m..mothers you dared the girls
But if you loved ya women and ya loved 'em right
Well I'm-a telling ya man
They were in for a fight
From Rollin' Dany
He was the rollin' man
Go!
Well everybody's talking about the working man
Nobody's talking about Rollin' Dany
Rollin' Dany
He was the rollin' man
03. Petty (Thief) Lout
(Smith/Scanlon)
5:20
Up the drain pipe
Rapid he did sprout
[Grey templates on us] he had to inflict
TV documentary that it produced
When he whistled in the street
The men would turn around in fear
Of being thought effete
Petty thief lout
Up the drain pipe
Rapid he did sprout
Crime
Hides records in his drawer at home
Especially when they are rare
Never gives 'em out to every Tom Dick & Harry
Who stole before from petty thief lout
Un the drain pipe
Rapid he did sprout
[Grey templates on us] he had to inflict
Suburbia holds
more than you care for
One must make sure
When leaving the house
Never to have white powder on the nose about
F-prints
F-prints on the fingers
Sprout
Great tempus onus
Suburbia holds more than you care for
Petty thief lout
(7" side 1: track 1; side 2: track 2)
(12" side 1: tracks 1,2; side 2: track 3)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals
Brix Smith - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Simon Rogers - bass, keyboards
Karl Burns - drums
Produced by: John Leckie
Engineer: Joe Gillingham
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded early 1985.
Double A-sided single. Rollin' Dany is a Gene Vincent cover.
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Overseas releases
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Released in the USA in 1985 on PVC Records 12": PVC5909 with different cover artwork and tracklisting:
01. Rollin' Dany
02. Couldn't Get Ahead
03. Vixen
04. Barmy
05. Petty (Thief) Lout
Both sides of the 12" contain all five tracks.
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