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'''Danger Came Smiling''' was the final [[Gramophone record|LP]] released by [[Manchester]] [[post-punk]] group [[Ludus]]. It was first issued by [[New Hormones]] in September [[1982]]. |
'''Danger Came Smiling''' was the final [[Gramophone record|LP]] released by [[Manchester]] [[post-punk]] group [[Ludus]]. It was first issued by [[New Hormones]] in September [[1982]]. |
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The album stands apart in the band's discogrpahy, being a lot more experimental, improvisional and intentionally less accessible than their other work. It consists of eighteen mostly short tracks. Instead of conventional lyrics, singer [[Linder Sterling]] provides a selection of cries, yells, laughter and spoken interludes (including diary records of Reichian therapy), and one very short a track sung a capella, while the music seems to be deliberately kicking against the slick pop that dominated charts at the time. The LP has been described by guitarist Ian Devine as a therapeutic exercise, and by Linder as a "personal exorcism". |
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==Track listing== |
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The tracklisting for <i>Pickpocket / Danger Came Smiling</i> is as follows (tracks 1-6 are from <i>[[Pickpocket (album)|Pickpocket]]</i>, and tracks 7-24 from <i>Danger Came Smiling</i>: |
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#The Patient |
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#The Fool |
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#Hugo Blanco |
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#Mutilate |
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#Box |
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#Mouthpiece |
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#Foaming at the Bit |
#Foaming at the Bit |
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#Howling Comique |
#Howling Comique |
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#Crinkum-Crankum |
#Crinkum-Crankum |
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#Centuries |
#Centuries |
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[[Category:English musical groups]] |
[[Category:English musical groups]] |
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Revision as of 23:54, 22 August 2006
Danger Came Smiling was the final LP released by Manchester post-punk group Ludus. It was first issued by New Hormones in September 1982.
The album stands apart in the band's discogrpahy, being a lot more experimental, improvisional and intentionally less accessible than their other work. It consists of eighteen mostly short tracks. Instead of conventional lyrics, singer Linder Sterling provides a selection of cries, yells, laughter and spoken interludes (including diary records of Reichian therapy), and one very short a track sung a capella, while the music seems to be deliberately kicking against the slick pop that dominated charts at the time. The LP has been described by guitarist Ian Devine as a therapeutic exercise, and by Linder as a "personal exorcism".
Track listing
- Foaming at the Bit
- Howling Comique
- You Open My Legs Like a Book
- Flogging Cully
- Mememoremee
- Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
- I Stabbed at the Sheep
- Mistresspiece
- Bloody Chamber
- Would You Rather Dancing Be?
- Wonder-Wounded
- Savasana
- Bitch Party
- Modju
- Palace of Thieves
- Redress
- Crinkum-Crankum
- Centuries
Currently, Danger Came Smiling is available on CD as a double-issue with the Ludus' 1981 EP Pickpocket. The complilation, Pickpocket/Danger Came Smiling, is available from the label Les Temps Modernes.