NEW RELEASE
PRESSED ON TRANSPARENT BLUE VINYL
Tracklist
1. Vindictive
2. A Boring Life*
3. Slime*
4. New Town
5. Love & Romance
6. Shoplifting
7. Number One Enemy
8. Number One Enemy (acoustic) (guest vocal from Nina Hagen)
9. In The Beginning
10. New Town
11. Man Next Door
12. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
13. Typical Girls
14. Fade Away*
15. In The Beginning (guest vocal from Neneh Cherry)
Tracks 1-7 Live at Dingwalls, London 9/77; 8 live in rehearsal; 9-14 Live in Cincinnati & San Francisco 1980; 15 Live at Hammersmith Palais, Dec. 1981 (last ever show).
*Never previously recorded
THE
ARE
SLITS
GIRLS
READ PALMOLIVE’S LYRICS
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You sit up there deciding my future
What the fuck do you think you are
Changing buses and raising taxes
Changing things as you please
You want me to take part of it
Like all the people
And you want to swallow me
But you might get indigestion 'cause
I'm going to be your Number one enemy
If you like white, I'll be black
If you like black, I'll be yellow
If you like rational, I'll be impossible
If you like reasonable, I'll be insane
If you like peace and flowers
I'm going to carry knives and chains
I'm going to be your Number one enemy
All for the hell of it
Give me ten and I'll take hundreds
Give me hundreds, I'll need thousands
Never mind what you think
Never mind what people say
Don't try to be nice to me
'Cause I'm your enemy
Don't be inflexible
because I''l go to kill
I'm going to be your Number one enemy
All for the hell of it
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Put the cheddar in the pocket
Put the rest under the jacket
I’ll talk to the cashier, he won't suspect
And if he does….
Do a runner
Do a runner
Do a runner
Do a runner
Ten quid for the lot
We pay fuck all
Babylonian won't lose much
And we'll have dinner tonight
Do a runner
Do a runner
Do a runner
Do a runner
The bastard is trying to watch us through the mirrors and TV
But they're not gonna catch us
'Cause we're gonna gonna gonna run run run
Do a runner
Do a runner
Do a runner
Do a runner
Run
Ten quid for the lot
We pay fuck all
Babylonian won't lose much
And we'll have dinner tonight
Do a runner
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Newtown where everybody goes around
sniffing Televisina or taking Footballina
Newtown Newtown
Newtown Newtown ( X3)
Gimme another fix
Gimme another fix
If not I'll go sick
I'll go sick
I'll be sick
( Music Break)
Gimme another fix
Gimme another fix
If not I'll go sick
I'll go sick
I'll be sick
Morning papers will bring you something flash
Make your bones shake and keep busy your mind
Newtown Newtown
Newtown Newtown ( X3)
Oh oh Gimme another fix
Oh oh Gimme another fix
If not I'll go sick
I'll go sick
I'll be sick sick sick sick
Morning papers, Mr. Simpson is a Big Ben freak”
Sniffing Punctualina or taking Clockaina
Newtown Newtown
Newtown Newtown ( X3)
( Music Break)
Oh, oh Gimme another fix
I, I, I need another fix
If not I'll go sick
I'll be sick
I'll be sick
Newtown
Newtown downtown,
Bum around, feeling down
Reggae songs coming out
Football crowds all around
Dropping PC late at night
Kids are waiting for a fight
Newtown
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I live in a town with a hundred lights around,
my head is like a radio set,
I'm waiting to hear what program is next.
What program is next? (FM)
Frequent Mutilation transmits over the air,
serving for the purpose
of those who want you to fear.
They say it's all right, but suspicion creeps in
my nightmares don't project my dreams
I can't but wonder what's feeding my screen.
What's feeding my screen? (FM)
Frequent Mutilation transmits over the air,
serving for the purpose
of those who want you to fear.
Thousand nights of confusion wedged in my mind
breaking down another illusion,
today's transmission will give me the solution.
Frequent Mutilation transmits over the air,
serving for the purpose
of those who want you to fear.
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Passion that shouts
and red with anger
I lost myself
Through alleys of mysteries
I went up and down
like a demented train.
(Chorus)
Don’t take it personal
I choose my own fate
I follow love
I follow hate.
Searching for something
that makes hearts move.
I found myself.
But my best possession
walked into the shade
and threatened to drift away.
Full of myself
I left you behind as if I could.
Possessed by Quixote’s Dream
went to fight dragons
in the land of concrete.
(Chorus)
Don’t take it personal
I choose my own fate
I follow love
I follow hate.
Rolling in pain
Discovered what hurts
and tasted hell.
Infatuated by madness
I danced in flames
and drunk in the depths of love.
⋆VIEW THE TRAILER⋆
A 72 page reproduction of The Slits’ bass player Tessa Pollitt’s scrapbook documenting the story of the rise and success of The Slits. Contains cuttings from NME, Sounds, Melody Maker, Zigzag and more.
Scrapbook comes packaged with the acclaimed 2018 documentary “Here To Be Heard, The Story of the Slits” on DVD.
⋆THE JOHN PEEL SESSIONS⋆
John Peel Session 1977
“The two sessions the Slits did during the punk era were magical.”
— John Peel
John Peel Session 1978