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Ajanta Cinema 1980 (Live) [Remastered]

by Skin Patrol

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Militant 02:42
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Militant You're all the same Christian drivel Joyfully for law and order Wasting my creative time Another poseur At the factory gates One more leaflet Demonstrates You got a new suit But no gun to shoot Your emptiness Doesn't interest me You worship the image Of the crucified man Wearing the stupid halo Of the militant martyr You gotta be active To prove yourself Someone does Your thinking for you Another poseur At the factory gates One more leaflet Demonstrates You got a new suit But no gun to shoot Your emptiness Doesn't interest me Doesn't interest me Doesn't interest me Doesn't interest me You don't interest me.
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Prayer 02:02
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Prayer Give us this day Our daily bread Our monthly bribe Shape our dreams And our desires So that I And only I can rise Your office job You will hold tight Your factory job You'll endure with no pride And when the lonely hours Of your survival are over Your joy, your family Will tell you, you were right Sweet choruses and grave On the medium wave In endless communion With your fellow slaves The waves are carrying Disquieting sounds And your determination Will do you no good now Give us this day Our daily bread Our monthly bribe!
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Fun 02:13
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Fun The reason lies In the people of this country Everyone seems ill Living lives of total fantasy They can do anything they want I couldn't care less But I'm being made ineffective Cleverly impotent Evolution's collapsing The myth is breaking down The family is dead Bored out of their minds Don't tell me what to do. Destroy all old relationships. Relationships are rotten Conditioned by lies Smashing the intellect That prevents understanding The intellect is subtle The intellect knows nothing Evolution's collapsing The myth is breaking down The family is dead Bored out of their minds Something for everyone A flexible pretence One I don't recognise Something must be wrong There's something else Another structure for me Nobody and nothing Can destroy what I believe in Evolution's collapsing The myth is breaking down The family is dead Bored out of their minds
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Dead Time 03:23
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Dead Time Going on and on Towards Destruction Appear, grow and die Your forgotten a Anonymous past Food for history And sudden memories Flow away, flow away. Flow away, flow away. Now! Hey! You lose yourself Playing a role Losing your character Denying authenticity Holding back Clinging pathetically Preferring appearance To experience Flow away, flow away. Flow away, flow away. Now! Hey! The passionate moment You always deny The commodity role Your fictional fake The eyes of power Watch from outside Pretending they love you While you die Flow away, flow away. Flow away, flow away. Now! Hey!
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Hated 04:05
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Hated I feel embarrassed By all that you do Thinking only of yourselves You're all losers now You only imitate In order to create United, United You accept your fate You're hated You're hated You're hated You're hated Affirming your Static superiority Contemptuous Derogatory It's all meaningless. Accommodated Negative, negative Feedback, assimilated It's just a lie. A false pretence You're just as lost As all the rest You're hated You're hated You're hated You're hated Treacherous voice Double standards Vain and glorious Your word's a liar I am disgusted By your behaviour You're hated You're hated You're hated You're hated
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Wonderful 03:48
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Wonderful Wonderful Self-expression Self-ish Glorification Escapism Idealism Uninspiring Idolisation Western culture drags It's dirty feet Into our loving homes Dying every day For eight or more hours Attempting to escape Suppress the individuality Infected by The same sickness Wonderful Self-expression Self-ish Glorification Escapism Idealism Uninspiring Idolisation Meaningless anguish Vulgar amusement Convenient safety valves For human anxiety Never a weapon of protest Playing by the rules Performing animals Get all the honours Wonderful Self-expression Self-ish Glorification Escapism Idealism Uninspiring Idolisation Nothing more to give Nothing remains But the offensive stench Of decadence Not truly Revolutionary Wonderful Self-expression Self-ish Glorification Escapism Idealism Uninspiring Idolisation
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Participation Mystique 02:04
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Participation Mystique You want to merge Into the herd Carried on waves Of communal emotion Escape the isolation Of the ego That overwhelms The individual You have found An object for hatred You will not Accept defeat You lose yourself In the past Overwhelming All responsibility Finding peace In mass fanaticism Overwhelming All critical thoughts Using and rousing Discontent and poverty Close ranks And follow
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Ritual 04:52
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Ritual A sacred mystery Suffering accepted Obedient servant Stupid laws Faithful to order Everything is ordered A respected model Of right conduct A solemn procession Sterile with ritual You celebrate Offer up your life To the Lost cause The blessings of The Holy Spirit The source of Every indignity Prostrate In helplessness Pour out The gifts Of Heaven On me The Family of Man Kept well within the law Ranked in order Of sacred rite Sharing out power The right to sacrifice With the same Loving care Pour out The gifts Of Heaven On me
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Radical 02:41
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Radical Empty lives come together The final fling before the slaughter Desperation shows too clearly Thought and reason not so easy Not essential, unnecessary Betraying radical in complacency Troubled minds hide behind Technique and personality Where's the reason in believing Being wrong and not admitting Self-appraisal's taken over Conceited and deceiving Slowly dying in defiance Self-interest and weakness Another substitute for action Revelling in helplessness
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Ambition 03:36
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Ambition Live in fantasy Imaginary success Mindless drivel One of the few Your only ambition Got nothing Never will Always the same Never change You today Me tomorrow I am a witness To pathetic lives Living out the Myth Fulfilling ambition Not worth my while Got nothing Never will Always the same Never change You today Me tomorrow Reactionary Your rebellion Always channelled off And watered down For even more profit Got nothing Never will Always the same Never change You today Me tomorrow A negative attack On all that you hate Will never succeed I can’t be bothered Is entertainment Got nothing Never will Always the same Never change You today Me tomorrow
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Under The Blanket 04:10
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Breaking The Silence 03:07
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Recorded live (desk mix) at the Ajanta Cinema, Derby, in 1980, this legendary gig captures this period of Skin Patrol at their best. On the bill with Anti-Pasti, the audience didn't quite get what they were expecting, hit with a potent mix of funk, punk, and agitpop via Captain Beefheart, The Doors and The Pop Group. The select few of the audience who knew what they were in for loved it. The majority waiting for identikit punk loathed it; they hated us in silence (mostly), and we hated them. The perfect gig at that time.

"Hey, what a surprising treat from the post-punk vaults! So of-its-era. Amazing sound quality, too. Do you, Sir, actually remember this particular gig? Judging from the sounds of the audience, there were only a handful there in a tiny cellar! Historically, this is quite valuable in the Skin Patrol story, also because most of those songs (with such short one-word titles) are unheard and unavailable elsewhere. Thanks, it's a very welcome recording!" AQ.

Release date: 06-Oct-2023
Label: One Million Fuzztone Guitars & Skin Patrol
UPC: 859778506517
Primary Genre: Alternative
Secondary Genre: Rock
Language: English

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released September 17, 2023

All songs Courtney/Dickinson/Harvey/Hoon
Robert Courtney: Vocals
Andrew Dickinson: Bass
Steve Harvey: Drums
Oliver Hoon: Guitar

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Skin Patrol became One Million Fuzztone Guitars in 1981 and released two singles “Heaven / Annuese” and “Men’s Hearts / Creepy Crawl” and an LP “26″ all now remastered and re-released on Cherry Red Records. Rock Section was remixed by Julian Cope And Andrew Weatherall in 2014 as Dayglo Maradona. One Million Fuzztone Guitars/Skin Patrol continue to record and release new material on TuneCore/BMI. ... more

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