instant karma: completely gone fishing

liner notes: planet spain

"Basically I'm telling people not to watch too much TV, and at the same time I'm watching TV like hell myself!! Apart from that, it's dealing with the fun-orientated generation who are far from leading poetic and really deep lives like we do. (Bollocks!) The producer was quite provocative about the lyrics and suggested that we should sing something like: "making love to the IRA". Bound to be a hit, ey!?"

Everything is possible today, just as long as you're up to date. With the latest fashion to approve everything that's so real. Watch the man on the stool go to hell, see how he looks with the juice in his veins. As the spit runs down your mouth, you reach out for the sweets next to you. If I had the remote control, I`d zap you away to where you really belong, TV today. Now you're off on a holiday, having sex in the orient. As the spit runs down your mouth, you'll pull out your card and pay for the boy. Somebody has to drive the car tonight. So we can get into town and feel alright. If I was to book your flight, I`ll send you to space. Where you really belong, to Planet Spain. Viva Espana.

--Tom

liner notes: invertebrates

'The product of my long time fascination with all things crawly and squishy (when stepped on), also a rare IK love song. Check out the confused moogs and Ollie battling the string quartet at the end, two reasons why this song was never played live.'

If we were two barnacles we'd hug the underbelly of a mothership that's leaving port out to see the world. And if I were a squid, I would wrap my eight arms arouns you, I would spill out all my ink so no one could intrude. Perfectly happy, perfectly dumb, blessed are the lower lifeforms, why can't I be one? The simplest of beings, so unburdened with braincells know no boredom, insecurity or misery like I. And though I really love love you, sometimes I might take a tumble over my inflated cerebellum, although all I want is to be perfectly happy, perfectly dumb. Blessed are the lower lifeforms, they know how it's done. As earthworms we would conjugate, as centipedes we'd dance, as crabs we would go sideways, or as ants we's go single-file, you and I ..

--Martin

liner notes: 2 o clockwise

"One of the IK Glamrock-Classics with lots of unexpected chords in it - pre-destined for the reaction: 'Sounds great, but we'd like to do a single-cut of that!' (also known as "castrating the artist's dignity"). This song is a good example of how I.K.-songs used to work at that time. It had that commercial chorus in it which made up for the anarchist-"we don't give a shit"- parts that the record-company especially hated."

Couldn't sleep at night, I've been crying all day. Couldn't eat a thing, had to throw up again. Couldn't be on my own, had to talk to a human trashcan. Couldn't walk in the crowd, it's not how many there are, but how long it takes to get through them. My fun begins on the fireplace of my last crisis, I dance and say here's to the times where you break up and feel intensively. I lay a tree trunk over the river, sit on it, let time go by, keep cool, keep cool water. Close my eyes in anger, open them in joy, don't you know that it's hip to be in a bad mood? Well I don't think so ... My fun begins on the fireplace ...

--Tom

liner notes: give me a deal

'Ego trip, part one. Many people who heard this classic IK rocker thought it was all about getting signed. It's not. At the time, I had lost my girlfriend, had huge financial problems ( OK, still have ...) and was running out of people I could shovel my problems on (Let's hear a big `Ah' for Gordon ...). Blamed it all on the music, I did. So, lets `give me a deal' and get this thing over with. Oh, the company exec loved it, `must have felt like a big wet sloppy one on the bum. But then again, it worked, right ?'

You've been pushing around my friends for much to long. You've been playing around with me and jerked me off. I'm twisted, I'm screwed, your sewer is my head. Maybe just a bond to much you broke. Suck, suck again. Give me a deal and be quiet. Give me a deal, I'm getting tired.

--Gordon