Show Us Your Nuts

A Cemental Health Records sampler

Cemental Health Records EEG07

A selection by Ian Shuttleworth of the best and the rest (’fraid so) 
from the first year of Cemental Health Records.
Hence the title, Virginia.

For individual track credits see below
It’s all rather confusing, really...

Digitally remastered November 2004.

Cover: subject obvious, photographer unknown.

This title (P) 1983, 2004 Cemental Health Records.

This album is intended to showcase existing Cemental Health Records releases, and to give exposure to deserving tracks for which no other niche could be found.  Most of the latter are less than serious.  Many of the tracks evolved during recording (only the bassist and vocalist in Cloaks, for instance, actually knew The End).  Enjoy it, watch for the next releases, and remember where you heard it first.

MUSICIANS on various tracks:
Ian Anderson: guitar  • Amédée Argent: lead vocals, backing vocals • Ken Ashdown: bass guitar • Andrew Benson: bass guitar, guitar, glockenspiel, percussion, backing vocals • John Catherwood: guitar; synthesizer • Robert Ehrlich: treated bass guitar, vocals • Murray Hawks: diatribe • Stephen Lamont: guitar, vocals • Kieran Lavery: vocals • Eoin Patterson: drums, assorted percussion • Ian Shuttleworth: synthesizer, bass guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals • Iain Walker: synthesizer, percussion, treatments • Roy Watson: synthesizer, chant • Joann Wilson: critical acuity • plus several mystery musos.
 
 

TRACK LISTING

ORIGINAL
  • Ian S.: Matchpoint [re-recording] (3:51) (Shuttleworth, © control Anal Memoranda): re-recorded from Lovemaking In Irish £200 Damages (EEG01).  Produced by Ian Shuttleworth; recorded at Ghetto.
  • Ian S.: C1(ii) [demo] (4:16) (Shuttleworth, © control Anal Memoranda): demo of song subsequently released on Chew Bastille Relevance (EEG02).  Produced by Ian Shuttleworth; recorded at home (Belfast).
  • Robert Ehrlich: Futility (5:51) (Ehrlich, words Lewis Oriel, © control P.I.S.S. Artists): part (ii) of the three-part title track to Radio Tiranë (EEG03).  Produced by Robert Ehrlich; recorded at home (Belfast).
  • Red Ellipsoid: Cities (4:37) (David Byrne, Warner Brothers Music): from Music For Blackmail (EEG04).  Produced by Stephen Lamont and Ian Shuttleworth; recorded on stage (Belfast).
  • Roy Watson: And On This Rock (3:53) (Watson, backing tape Shuttleworth, © control Anal Memoranda): from The Twinkie Plea (EEG05).  Produced by Roy Watson and Ian Shuttleworth; recorded at Ghetto.
  • This “Blue Piano”: Chivalry [demo] (4:42) (Lamont/Ashdown, © control): from Exhibit A (EEG06).  Produced by Stephen Lamont; recorded at home (Montréal).
  • Iain Walker: The Slope Of The Normal (3:00) (Walker, © control Mad Arab Music): from Suffocating In Whitby (EEG08).  Produced by Iain Walker; recorded at the Winter Headquarters.
  • The Problem Of Pain: Hawking At The Gargoyles (6:37) (The Problem Of Pain, dir. Walker, © control Mad Arab Music): otherwise unavailable at time of original release; now a bonus track on the expanded edition of Gentlemen Taken And Done For (EEG10).  Produced by Iain Walker; recorded in M1 (percussion tracks) and at the Winter Headquarters.
  • Blind Jefferson Attenborough And The Triple B’s: Multi-Coloured Bulletproof Duck-Billed Platypus Blues (7:42) (Attenborough, © control): otherwise unavailable.  Producer and recording location unknown.
  • The Concrete Band: R.B.A.I. School Song (1:55) (trad. German drinking tune, lyricist unknown, arr. Anderson [music]/Lavery [words], © control): otherwise unavailable.  Produced by Ian Shuttleworth and Iain Walker; recorded in N1.
  • The Alps “Heroes”/Helden [full version] (6:15) (Bowie/Eno/Maass, Bewlay Brothers Music/Fleur Music/E.G. Music): otherwise unavailable (released in edited form on the original cassette version of this title).  Produced by Ian Shuttleworth; recorded at Ghetto.
  • Cloaks: The End (11:19) (The Doors, Rondor Music): otherwise unavailable.  Produced by Ian Shuttleworth; recorded at A&A.
 BONUS
  • Red Ellipsoid: Memories Can’t Wait (3:14) (David Byrne, Warner Brothers Music): released on the original cassette version of Music For Blackmail (EEG04), but excised from the CD re-release for reasons of running time.  Produced by Stephen Lamont and Ian Shuttleworth; recorded on stage (Belfast).
  • This “Blue Piano” with Sabrina: Antwerp (5:50) (Lamont, © control PRO-Canada): from Exhibit B: The Sabrina Tapes (EEG06b), special bonus CD with re-release of Exhibit A.  Produced by Stephen Lamont; recorded in Montréal, precise location unknown.
  • Cloaks: Riders On The Storm (5:04) (The Doors, Rondor Music): otherwise unavailable.  Produced by Ian Shuttleworth; recorded at A&A.
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