THE GLOVE ERA SINGLES

Includes scans of 7", 10", 12" singles, cassettes, CDs, promos, imports, limited editions and adverts.  Also includes track listings, catalogue numbers, release dates, chart positions, credits, liner notes and reviews.


 

LIKE AN ANIMAL

 

SINGLE

 
 
  UK 7" Single Track Listing  
 
 
  Like An Animal 7" Single Front Cover - Click Here For Full Scan   
Cat: 
SHE 3  
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Like An Animal
Mouth To Mouth
 
  UK 12" Single Track Listing  
 


 
  Like An Animal 12" Single Front Cover - Click Here For Full Scan   
Cat: 
SHEX 3
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Like An Animal
Mouth To Mouth
Like An Animal (Club What Club? Mix)
 
  Notes: Available in a limited edition die cut sleeve

No promo video was made for this release

 

 
  Released: 12/08/83  
  UK Chart: No. 52  
  US Chart: Not Released  
  Sleeve Design: Da Gama  
  Producer: Severin/Smith/Merlin Griffiths  
       

 

PROMOS/IMPORTS

 
 
  UK 12" Promo Single Track Listing  
 
 
  Like An Animal 12" Promo Single Front Cover - Click Here For Bigger Scan
Like An Animal
Mouth To Mouth
Like An Animal (Club What Club? Mix)
 
       

 

PRESS

 
 
  Melody Maker 13/08/83  
 
 
  Like An Animal Advert - Click Here For Bigger ScanThe Severin - Smith axis of The Banshees finally break cover with a vivacious confection.  Eminently preferable to the Gothic big band swing of The Creatures' 'Right Now', this is a feverish concoction; ignore the lyric, the words are nonsense; just listen to the noise.  'Like An Animal' sparkles.  Whooshing swathes of synthesizers and keyboards erupt colourfully and continuously; jangling guitars peel away, mostly on the lip of the main action; the percussion clatters with a nervous rattle that recalls Wall Of Voodoo; the bass simply hums through the mix, playing a melody adapted from the final vocal cascades of the Go - Betweens'. 'Cattle & Cane', providing a challenging counterpoint to Jeanette's keenly pitched but rather thin vocal.  'Like An Animal' provides the same kind of spacious rush as The Bryds 'Eight Miles High' and races along with the exhausting momentum of the pre - thunderclap climax of Love's 'Seven & Seven Is'.  Are The Glove the new West Coast experimental pop art ensemble?  Whatever: like all good pop records 'Like An Animal' sounds like it's always been there.  The Glove may yet prove to be a real handful. 

Allan Jones

 
 
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CREDITS

     
  Like An Animal Lyrics  
 
 
 

One mile in the air that's where she lives
Her body looks so thin and pink and small
Dropping eggs from nervous shaking hands
And swallowing her fingers as they fall
Two people dance on the edge
Three of us push them away
There's nowhere to go we're all in this
But nothing can hurt us at all

Fight her all you want you'll never win
Couldn't we just once leave her in bed
Let the dry air cut her happy throat
Hide her heart and lose her happy head

First I was a murderer than I was a saint
Now I live on stolen time twist and I run like paint
Like an animal
Tuesday in the sun nothing could be worse
Not now not ever not anymore...

 
     
  Like An Animal Credits  
     
  Smith - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  A newspaper article concerning a woman who progressed from dropping eggs from her tower block flat to dropping a television  
     

 


     
  Mouth To Mouth Lyrics  
 
 
 

Your body grows more beautiful
With every move you make
Your body grows more beautiful
With every bite I take
You won't believe I love you
It's too stupid for words
So I lick your trembling lips
And use your hands to feed the birds

I laid with you for hours
Staring at your face
I laid with you for hours
Remembering your taste
And when the morning came
It spattered us in light
I think I left you sleeping there
I think I left you sleeping

Mouth to mouth I asked you to stay
Mouth to mouth but you're slipping away

Down seven stairs and first on the left
Arch your back and hold your breath
A million fat girls and a million fat men
Couldn't put me back together again

 
     
  Mouth To Mouth Credits  
     
  Severin/Smith - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     

 

PUNISH ME WITH KISSES

 

SINGLE

 
 
  UK 7" Single  Track Listing  
 
 
  Punish Me With Kisses 7" Single Front Cover - Click Here For Full Scan   
Cat: 
SHEX 5  
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Punish Me With Kisses (Remix)
Tightrope
 
  Notes: No promo video was made for this release

 

 
  Released: 18/11/ 83  
  UK Chart: No. 97  
  US Chart: Not Released  
  Sleeve Design: Da Gama  
  Producer: Severin/Smith/Merlin Griffiths  
       

 

PRESS

 
 
     
 
 
  Punish Me With Kisses Advert - Click Here For Bigger Scan  
 


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CREDITS

     
  Punish Me With Kisses Lyrics  
 
 
 

Your morning smile of torture holds me in it's grip
You trace the taste of yesterday the bruise upon my lip
You touch my eyes and hypnotize and slip inside my heart
I wait for this forever but we always fall apart
You want to hold me closer
And secretly entice
You take the size of shadowed men
And punish me with kisses every night 

This espionage is sweeter now
Now that we're alone
But I meet your eyes and then despise
All we call our own

I write my name in lipstick on the mirror as I leave
To stay would be too dangerous
To break the make believe...

 
     
  Punish Me With Kisses Credits  
     
  Severin - Lyrics
Landray - Voice
Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The title of this song was derived from the 'trash novel' of the same name Punish Me With Kisses by William Bayer  
     

 


     
  Tightrope  
 
 
 

Instrumental

 
     
  Tightrope Credits  
     
  Severin/Smith - All Instruments except:
Andy Anderson - Drums
Ginny Hewes/Anne Stephenson/Martin McCarrick - Strings
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Inspired by the circus dream sequence in the film Girl On A Motorcycle