instant karma: completely gone fishing

liner notes: mystery meat

"Looking at this and 'Beef and the Blue Sea', one could get the impression we're vegetarians. This, in fact, was written in a local burger bar. Also, it was born as a cute little swinging rock number and only later mutated under heavy Atari radiation into this cancerous cell-mixture of mambo, surf and house. This is tonight's special. Enjoy.'

There's a horse, a pig, a cow, a blue-eyed rabbit, a chicken, a turkey, and a kangaroo, a duck, a goose, a hog and a reindeer, a snail, a crab, and a frog named Boo. And none of the above is on the menu tonight, none of the above ... Can you guess the mystery meat?

--Martin

liner notes: the world starts screaming

"A track of truly epic proportions. I.K.`s got the habit of recording at least 2 little 'operas ' on each album and this is probably the best one. We used WSS as the opener during the `Grammy-tour and it sure irritated the audience and got us a couple of strange reviews. Try to imagine the London Philharmonic Orchestra as a backing band, we always did ..."

The lights go out, a candle burns, the box is on, the hormones yearn. Beside the bed it's coke and crisps. It's feeding time just like the pigs. I go here and you go there, imagine things that aren't there and if we stop we feel alone. Please don't stop just carry on. And the world starts screaming ...

--Gordon

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