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2LP
Disc 1 - Side 1
1 Get Up And Use Me
2 Everything’s Roses
CODEX COMMUNICATIONS CDX 01, December 1980
3 Plastic Gift
4 Get Up And Use Me
5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
6 Discord
Side 2
7 New Thing In Cartons
8 Hungry Beat
9 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt. 1
10 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 2
11 Plastic Gift (Version)
Lubricate Your Living Room
POP: AURAL AAC 001, January 1981
12 Candyskin
13 Meat Whiplash
POP: AURAL POP 010, May 1981
Disc 2 - Side 3
1 Candyskin
2 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
3 Untitled
4 Discord
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded February 23rd 1981 / Broadcast March 9th 1981
5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
6 New Thing In Cartons
Side 4
7 Big Gold Dream (Unused Intro)
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
8 Big Gold Dream
POP: AURAL POP 013, December 1981
9 The Big Wrong Time
10 Qualitamatic
11 Young Tongues Need Taste
12 Produced To Seduce To
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded November 14th 1981 / Broadcast November 23rd 1981
2CD
Disc 1
1 Get Up And Use Me
2 Everything’s Roses
CODEX COMMUNICATIONS CDX 01, December 1980
3 Plastic Gift
4 Get Up And Use Me
5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
6 Discord
7 New Thing In Cartons
8 Hungry Beat
9 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt. 1
10 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 2
11 Plastic Gift (Version)
Lubricate Your Living Room POP: AURAL AAC 001, January 1981
12 Candyskin
13 Meat Whiplash
POP: AURAL POP 010, May 1981
14 Candyskin
15 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove
Thang
16 Untitled
17 Discord
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded February 23rd 1981 / Broadcast March 9th 1981
18 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
19 New Thing In Cartons
20 Big Gold Dream (Unused Intro)
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
21 Big Gold Dream
POP: AURAL POP 013, December 1981
22 The Big Wrong Time
23 Qualitamatic
24 Young Tongues Need Taste
25 Produced To Seduce To
JOHN PEEL SESSION
Recorded November 14th 1981 / Broadcast November 23rd 1981
Disc 2
1 The Untitled One
2 Insert Yourself
3 Discord
LEITH COMMUNITY CENTRE, March 16th 1980
4 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
5 Get Up And Use Me
6 Hungry Beat
7 Everything’s Roses
8 The Untitled One
WILF SMARTIES LIVE SESSION, August 2nd 1980
9 Get Up And Use Me
10 Discord
11 Hungry Beat
12 Everything’s Roses
13 Get Up And Use Me (Reprise)
WHY DOES THE POPE NOT COME TO GLASGOW?
EDINBURGH FRINGE, August 18th-September 6th 1980
14 Produce To Seduce To
15 Get Up And Use Me
16 Hungry Beat
17 Plastic Gift
18 Discord
19 New Thing In Cartons
20 Coca Cola Cowboy
21 Meat Whiplash
22 Candyskin
EDINBURGH VALENTINO’S CLUB, August 9th 1981
23 Clip (Excerpt)
CC SOMERVILLE SHOW, January 12th 1981
24 Jacqueline
NEW! 000, December 2004
Fire Engines
Chrome Dawns (2024 Reissue)
cherry red
Lightning in a bottle - the coiled, frenetic energy of the Edinburgh quartet is captured perfectly on this collection of early releases and Peel sessions, which land somewhere between Glen Branca and Wire.
Enormously influential, criminally underrated, essentially revisited.
Featuring all Fire Engines’ Codex Communications & Pop: Aural recorded output, plus the two 1981 John Peel BBC Sessions - the latter featuring tracks unavailable elsewhere. Now remastered from Bob Last’s original master tapes together with two accompanying John Peel Sessions, ‘Chrome Dawns’ is the definite Fire Engines artefact including the 7” inch – ‘Candyskin’ / ‘Meat Whiplash’ – now regarded as a classic; the mini album – Lubricate Your Living Room – as a wilfully perverse objet d’art; and the 12” – ‘Big Gold Dream’ – best remembered by some for its sleeve. Despite such limited output, Fire Engines had a rich history the brevity of their lifespan doesn’t do justice.
CD Edition
Featuring all Fire Engines’ Codex Communications/Pop: Aural recorded output. Plus the two 1981 John Peel BBC Sessions, the latter featuring tracks unavailable elsewhere, and essential live recordings including Fire Engines’ debut live performance at Leith Community Centre, the band’s memorable appearance at 1980’s ‘Why Does The Pope Not Come To Glasgow?’ Edinburgh Fringe and one of the band’s legendary 30-minute sets at Edinburgh Valentino’s captured during the summer of 1981. Plus a track from the 2004 ‘reformed’ Fire Engines; ‘influencers’ now covering the ‘influenced’ with 2004 Mercury Prize Winners Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Jacqueline’.