The Prime Number Shitting Bear (objectionable love songs) 

Ian S.: a ’90s retrospective

Cemental Health Records EEG48

VANESSA BRAY: lead vocals on We’ll Always Have Paris
RICHARD HURST: co-lead vocals on Some Days
DAN MERSH, ALYS TORRANCE: backing vocals on Some Days
IAN SHUTTLEWORTH: everything else

Roll Credits, Some Days: words I.S./Richard Hurst, copyright control.
Where Are We Going Tonight?: words and music © Steve Lamont.
susans dream: Acknowledgements to Noel S. Engel.
Benches: words Mark Gilliland, copyright control.
I’ll Explain, words © James Fenton.
All other words and music I.S., copyright control.

Programmed, recorded, produced and engineered by I.S.
All tracks digitally remastered by I.S., November 2002.

This compilation (P) Cemental Health Records 2002.
ALLUSION CHECKLIST:
Iain (M.) Banks • Samuel Beckett • Peter Blegvad • Jorge Luis Borges • David Bowie • Melvyn Bragg • Ian Broudie • John Cale • Geoffrey Chaucer • Edwyn Collins • Julian Cope • Michael Curtiz • Bette Davis • Richard Denton & Martin Cook • Howard Devoto • Andrew Eldritch • Marianne Faithfull • Arianna Forster  • Galileo Galilei • Eric Goulden • Gregory Gray • Paul Haig • Robert Hamer • Tom Kempinski • Stanley Kubrick • Timothy Leary • John Lennon • Billy MacKenzie • John McGrath • Van Morrison • Peter Murphy • Mike Oldfield • Lee Harvey Oswald • Christina Rossetti • Ken Russell • Pete Shelley • Vladek Sheybal • Bernard Sumner • Dan Treacy • Tom Verlaine • Scott Walker • Paul Weller • Oscar Wilde


TRACK LISTING

  • The Library Of Babel (6:23) *
  • Do You Have A Younger Sister? (5:26) †
  • Roll Credits (2:57) §
  • Where Are We Going Tonight? (5:19) *
  • susans dream (4:59) †
  • Are You Sitting Comfortably? (7:21) *
  • Watch Your Back (3:48) †
  • Benches (5:33) §
  • I'll Explain / We'll Always Have Paris (7:47) *
  • ...But It Does Move (4:51) §
  • Some Days (10:26) §
  • Colour Me Puzzled (5:09) *
  • The Wind Changed (6:34) †
  • Change And Tokens (2:45) †
* from Nailing Down Snowflakes, EEG44 (1995)
† from Do You Have A Younger Sister?, EEG49 (1996)
§ from Rorschach Poetry by The Silk Society, EEG50 (1998)