First song: I've tried Googling the lyrics several times before in the past few years and have never come up with anything. It's a fairly nocturnal-sounding clubby song somewhere that's not slow but not really mid-tempo either. It was a bit similar to New Order and OMD and had a soft male vocal (like a more sensitive Barney Sumner) and a rather icily feline-sounding female backup vocalist. It was on a tape my father made of Club Convergence (a program on the local college station here that played lots of underground club hits and remixes of them and whatnot, and this song might actually be a remix of the original). Each verse ended with some variant of: "Not that you needed me that much, I believed that your work had the healing touch..." and each chorus went, "Now, what am I gonna do when the happiness I had was made possible by you? You used me, you know it's the truth, so why should I believe in anything I do?" It's probably three and a half to four minutes long. This has been bugging me for well over a decade now. I've been able to find out what some other songs were from other Club Convergence tapes my father had (Nitzer Ebb's "Family Man", PWEI's "Wise Up Sucker (12" Youth Mix)", The Weathermen's "Freedom or Slavery") but this is one of the ones I've never found out. Actually, now that I think about it there are two others that have always bugged me that I've wanted to know about, and these will be more vague as they don't really have any lyrics.
The next song's a rather abrasive Front 242/Meat Beat Manifesto/Nitzer Ebb-type post-industrial song with slamming 4-on-the-floor beats (probably about 135-150 bpm) that has a lot of samples barking "It was all because of MONEY!" throughout. It's about three and a half to four minutes long as well, as is the next tune. This other song is rather clubby with a brisk tempo, acid-house piano breaks during the verses, and a rather disturbed/deviantly playful-sounding child's voice (probably a girl) that says "Don't you want to come out and play?" during the chorus like a less hesitant variant of the kid The Prodigy sampled from that public service announcement for "Charly".
― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago)