AB-CD liner notes


Chris Manecke -- guitar, vocals
Kevin Dolan -- drums
John Blake -- bass

Tracklist

Ghosts
Soil
The Other Side Of The Fence
I Glide
Mice & Coconut Tree

* From the LP "Eureka" originally released June 1986 on
South West Audio Reproductions.  Re-released on Caroline
Records (CAROL 1342) in August 1987.

  Engineers: songs 1 & 4 Eric Garton, song 2 Evan Williams,
  song 3 Michael Grimes, Song 5 Charlie Ritter

Smiling Monarchs

** Originally releaed by Factory U.K. July 1985.

Dinner
Spaghetti Western
Where Whitie Ain't Allowd
Press Escape
Laugh At Yourself
Surf Western
Panic In Needle Park

*** From the LP "Resin" released February 1988 on Caroline
    Records (CAROL 1343). 

 Engineer: Jim Cypherd.  Recorded at Sound Arts Recording 
 Studio, L.A.

 Black & White photography by Chris Wilder



GHOSTS

Stare through the window,
listen to the rain fall down.
I think there's something,
outside in the cold.

It happened yesterday
Tipped my hat and walked away

I feel the freezing cold
pass through my soul
Feels like they're here
I don't think they'll remember me though
statues offer roses to me
Arms outstretched for all to see

Stay away from my mind
It's all I have
Stay away from her clothes
They're all she has


SOIL

[German phone operator:  'This number is disconnected and no longer in service']

Seeping from soil
The juices of lust that once held me at bay
I'll probably love you for a million years

Now is the time
when all good great things come to mind
Don't waste your time
waiting for great things to come to mind

I've waited for one thousand years to die


I GLIDE

Somebody knows
our past works remain
on display
just like then
It's the same today

Glide with me
I glide

Now, I'm scared of the rain
I think it can see me
when I'm gliding again

Somebody sings
Dreams it brings
And then when I broke the spell
no one ever said that I would win
Just like then
It's the same today


MICE & COCONUT TREE

Trees filled, monkeys
It never did nothing for their special something
So splits all diversion

Animal smells
donning the flat sand, there's no other good life
It's accepted when food's free

The kill goes down, down down

Illness like healthy
There lost in the high tree
Time smells of something else libidoish now
Just like it should be

They eat it down, down, down

It's got to be
like mice and coconut tree
It's got to be
the morrow different they'll see
like mice and coconut tree


SMILING MONARCHS

You told me something I couldn't forget
I'll always be grateful to you
I told you something I'll aways regret
I guess I don't know what to do.

And it's a sun-shiny day outside
I'd like to fly away
I just need reasons to go

(repeated)

My life is filled with the greens of the trees
and the blues of the sea
It's something time slipped away from me

Do you drift far away
when the leaves from the trees have all burned
I drifted somewhere and never returned

It all seems so wrong today
The smiling monarchs run away


DINNER

Don't wait for the sun
Find your cross, the holy one
Before I'm at your door,
I call your house
I'm quiet as a mouse

Hands that crave your skin
Wipe drool from his chin
Locks won't last all night
Won't last all night
Beg God for morning's light

But go ahead and beg away 
Plead with Jesus for the day
But Satan has such different plans
Your soul is inches from his hands

The door explodes, I'm here
I smell your scent, so near
It's too late to run, I'm in your house
You'll melt in my mouth


SPAGHETTI WESTERN

Through the prairie I ride
I hear their horses
four hundred strong
My horse grows weary

All night I ride
They try to catch me
But I cannot stop
The rope it awaits me

My friends they are dead
They died in the town
The sheriff he shot them
My tears make no sound

If only I'd listened
Listened to Papa
Oh Paco I'll miss you
And Fredrico I'll miss you too

La la la la la la allah
La la la la la la allah
La la la la la la allah


WHERE WHITIE AIN'T ALLOWED

voice #1:  "Where you goin'?"
voice #2:  "Where whitie ain't allowed!"

(at 0:33) Yeah...oh yeah!


PRESS ESCAPE

Make a guess
with a liberal decision
Make a mess
with a liberal precision
That's what I do when I'm with you
Do you know what my name is?

Don't expect too much from me,
I'm too boring to go with you anywhere
But that won't stop me from being

(repeated)


LAUGH AT YOURSELF

Attend more sense than I can buy in a daydream
Attend more sense than I can buy what you're thinking
Buy me

So take all I have
But that's all I have
To stand on you
And I need to

Attend more sense is all you need to relieve me
Attend more sense and then I'll know
What you do to me

So take all I have
But that's all I have
I hold my breath
The glass it say

Someday
Someday
Someday


SUFFERIN' TARNATION
(SURF WESTERN)

Oh no
That mean is beating his dog again
My neighbor beats his dog every day
I can't stand his dog when it walks that way

Sometimes it seems
We'll never reach the river
Never reach the river

My friend
is named Flicka
She kicks me in the stomach every day
I love her to death when she kicks that way


PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK

The movie is over
Tears tickling our face as it ends
I almost felt good inside
Till the part where the hero died


Notes

* The version of 'Soil' on AB-CD reverts back to the version on the
original Southwest Audio Reproductions release, and is different than 
the one on the Caroline version of Eureka, the latter being a shorter 
edit not including the phone operator intro.  

* On 'The Other Side of the Fence' at 3:36, there's a off-key note in 
the keyboard riff.  This is is also present in the IPR Archive Series 
reissue, proving it's the same recording, but is much less audible, 
due to the keyboard being lower in the (superior) mix.

* Possible mastering fault at 3:12 on 'I Glide', at least on my CD copy.

* The booklet leaves out the 'greens of the trees and blues of the sea'
and the 'it all seems so wrong today' verses on Smiling Monarchs.

* The lyrics of 'Laugh At Yourself' aren't included in the booklet.
Possible mastering fault at 2:20.

* Panic In Needle Park is likely named for (and about) the 1971 movie 
starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn portraying heroin junkies in Manhattan's 
'Needle park'.