Big Hard Excellent Fish – Imperfect List
Label:
One Little Indian – 041TP 7CD
Format:
CD, Maxi-Single
Country:
Released:
Genre:
Style:
Tracklist
Credits
- Bongos – Vincent Gibbs
- Keyboards – Douglas Benford
- Producer – Andrew Weatherall
- Producer [Assistance] – Hugo Nicholson*
- Saxophone – Stewart Dace
- Written-By – Big Hard Excellent Fish
Notes
CD is subtitled 'Rimming Elvis The Andrew Weatherall Way'
Blue sleeve. Very little track info. Track 4 is unlisted on the sleeve.
Other Versions (Showing 2 of 2) View All
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfect List (Rimming Elvis The Andy Weatherall Way) (12") | One Little Indian | 041TP 12L | UK | 1990 | ||
| Imperfect List (12") | One Little Indian | 041TP 12 | UK | 1990 |
▸ show all 1 review
[r217737]
Instead of playing him a demo, she reads out, in a dour northern accent, her 'imperfect list'. Birket is blown away by the words, and decides to take a punt, offering her a tiny recording budget
A few weeks later, the anonymous lady returns with the masters. To everyone's amazement, not only is the track kinda amazing, but it is recorded by Robin Gutherie of Cocteau Twins and Pete Wylie, and has Andrew Weatherall remixes already arranged...
It's a jaw-dropping song, this, especially in its original beatless version - a list of evildoers and nastiness spat out in a vitriolic Scouse accent over a dark ambient drone.
"Adolf Hitler. the dentist. Terry & June. fucking bastard Thatcher. Scouse impersonator. silly pathetic girlies. silly pathetic woman. macho dickhead. Bonnie Langford. neighbours. lost keys. phoney friend. ungrateful accusing mate. the Royal family. Stock Aitken & Waterman. smiling Judas. heartbreaking lying friend. Myra Hindley. acid rain. stinking rich female in furs. disloyal lover. wife & child beater. drunken abuser. racist. bully. The Sun newspaper. AIDS inventor. Leon Brittan. all nonsense. massive massive oilslick. Jimmy Tarbuck. loneliness. cancer. hunger. greed. gut wrenching disappointment. evil gossiping fashion bastard. tasteless a&r wanker. hard cold fish. overdraft like a mountain. the Jimmy Swaggart show. the Tory invention of the non-working class. poll tax. commie bashers. mister Jesse Helms. Hillsborough. weird british judges. apartheid. John Lennon's murder. anyone's murder. the breakdown of the NHS. the death of the rain forest. Heysel stadium. rednecks. rape. homelessness. the all-American way. Clause 28. Tiananmen Square. sexual harrassment. Nelson Mandela's imprisonment. Nancy's term. Ronnie's term. miscarriage. where were you?"