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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 is very different and a lot more experimental than the band's other work. It consists of eighteen mostly short tracks. Instead of conventional lyrics, singer Linder 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 Ian Devine as a therapeutic exercise, and by Linder as a "personal exorcism".

Currently, Danger Came Smiling is available on CD as a double-issue with the Ludus' 1981 EP Pickpocket. The compliation is available from the label Les Temps Modernes.

The tracklisting for Pickpocket / Danger Came Smiling is as follows:

  1. The Patient
  2. The Fool
  3. Hugo Blanco
  4. Mutilate
  5. Box
  6. Mouthpiece
  7. Foaming at the Bit
  8. Howling Comique
  9. You Open My Legs Like a Book
  10. Flogging Cully
  11. Mememoremee
  12. Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
  13. I Stabbed at the Sheep
  14. Mistresspiece
  15. Bloody Chamber
  16. Would You Rather Dancing Be?
  17. Wonder-Wounded
  18. Savasana
  19. Bitch Party
  20. Modju
  21. Palace of Thieves
  22. Redress
  23. Crinkum-Crankum
  24. Centuries
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