Drug MachineSub Pop Records, 1988Limited to 1500 |
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| A. Drug Machine B. Strychnine/What's So Funny (About Peace, Love and Understanding) produced by the Flaming Lips |
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Sub Pop asked the Lips to be one of their singles club artists with this track from the album Telepathic Surgery. This song is a different version from that one - hence the slightly different title. Drug Machine is a real classic old-style-Lips punk tune but it kind of saunters instead of going for the throat like on the album. It's pretty cool. There's a cool story to the b-side too.... Sub Pop asked the band to cover the Sonics' Strychnine on the b-side. Not knowing the track too well, they spent a while listening to a tape with it on. On this tape straight after Strychnine was Elvis Costello playing What's So Funny ('Bout Peace Love and Understanding) which was written by Nick Lowe. Anyway, they would always hear the song after they listened to the song they were meant to do and when it came to the studio they ended up playing both songs jammed together. This version appeared on the b-side of the 7" and the Lips ended up adopting What's So Funny as a live favourite and never really playing Strychnine again.... |
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