Group
Mark E Smith – vocals
Ben Pritchard – guitar
Jim Watts – bass, guitar, vocals
Spencer Birtwistle – drums
Brian Fanning – guitar, vocals
Ed Blaney – guitar, vocals
With:
Julia Nagle – keyboards (track 7 live portion)
Recording
Noise Box, Manchester mid 2001.
Production
Mark E Smith, Ed Blaney, Spencer Birtwistle and Jim Watts
Releases
- 5 November 2001 (CD); January 2002 (LP) Cog Sinister/Voiceprint LP: COGVP131LP; CD: COGVP131CD (tracks 1-10)
- 29 May 2006(CD) on Castle/Sanctuary Records Group: CMRCD1352 (tracks 1-16)
Tracks
- Jim’s “The Fall” (Smith/Watts) 3:18
- Bourgeois Town (Leadbetter, arr. Smith) 3:57
- Crop-Dust (Birtwistle/Smith) 3:30
- My Ex-Classmates’ Kids (Smith/Blaney) 3:47
- Kick The Can (Smith/Pritchard) 5:18
- Gotta See Jane (R Dean Taylor) 2:17
- Ibis-Afro Man (Smith/Watts/Pop) 3:21
- The Acute (Smith/Fanning) 5:36
- Hollow Mind (Smith/Blaney) 4:55
- Reprise: Jane – Prof Mick – Ey Bastardo (Birtwistle/Blaney) 1:05
- Rude (All The Time) (Smith/Blaney) 2:44
- I Wake Up In The City (Smith/Blaney) 4:40
- New Formation Sermon (Smith) 2:04
- Distilled Mug Art (Smith/Blaney) 3:33
- My Ex-Classmates’ Kids (live) (Smith/Blaney) 4:59
- Where’s The F**kin Taxi? C**t (Smith/Blaney/Fanning/Fisher) 5:09
Notes
The CD was sold at live gigs from 8 October 2001, about a month before its official release.
Some early pressings of the CD incorrectly had tracks 4 and 5 reversed on the disc.
The LP version, released in January 2002, was a limited numbered edition picture disc of 1,000 copies.
The composition credit for track 2 was incorrectly given as R Johnson on the cover.
A portion of track 7 is a live recording from the Monday, 23 April, 2001 – Mean Fiddler, London, England – it includes Julia Nagle on keyboards who is not credited on the album
Tracks 11-12 come from the single Rude (All The Time); tracks 13-14 come from the live & studio compilation 2G+2; track 15 comes from the single Theme From Sparta F.C. #2; track 16 comes from the single Rude (All The Time) EP.
The picture on the cover is a negative image of Mr and Mrs Smith
With the exception of Bourgeois Blues and Kick The Can the live action for the bulk of the tracks on the original ten track release was very low. Bourgeois had a healthy 69 outings and Kick The Can 60, although for 34 of those the song was split in two with part one being called “Ben’s” on setlists. For the rest Jim’s (18) Crop Dust (22) My Ex Classmates (29) Gotta See Jane (3) Ibis (19) Ey Bastardo (3) with nothing for the other two.
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