WILD THINGS ERA SINGLES

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MAD EYED SCREAMER

 

EP

 
 
  UK Double 7" Single Track Listing  
 
 
  Wild Things EP Double 7" Single Front Cover - Click Here For Full Scan
Cat:  POSPG 354  
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Mad Eyed Screamer
So Unreal
But Not Them
Wild Thing
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  Notes: Available as a limited edition double 7" single in a gatefold sleeve

 

 
  UK 7" Single Track Listing  
       
  Wild Things 7" EP Single Front Cover - Click Here For Full Scan
Cat:  POSP 354   
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Mad Eyed Screamer
So Unreal
But Not Them
 
   

 

   
  Released: 25/09/81  
  UK Chart: No. 24  
  US Chart: Not Released  
  Sleeve Design: The Creatures/Rob O' Connor/Stylo Rouge  
  Producer: The Creatures/Mike Hedges  
       

 

IMPORTS/PROMOS

 
 
  US Import 7" Single Track Listing  
 
 
  Mad Eyed Screamer US 7" Promo Single Front Cover - Click Here For Bigger Scan
Mad Eyed Screamer
So Unreal
 
   

 

 

 

PRESS

 
 
  Melody Maker 26/09/81  
 
 
  Wild Things EP Advert Click Here For Bigger ScanI hear the sound of distant drums....again.  The Sandie Shaw of yesterday's punk, Siouxsie Banshee delivers her usual atmospheric vocals over Budgie's lonely percussion.

It's spread over a double-45 soft-porn epic that includes a lame repeat of The Troggs' finest two minutes and ten seconds.  Jane Birken was steamier than this. 

Ian Pye

 
 
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  Description:  
  The band:  Siouxsie Sioux, Budgie.  Siouxsie and Budgie continue the theme of the Wild Things EP cover.  The set is black and empty.  Lots of close ups of eyes and mouths, a wet look Siouxsie covered in flowers.  The editing is fast and includes clever use of freeze frame shots.  In fact TV channels steered clear of airing it for fear that the fast editing would induce epileptic fits in their viewers!  Debut Creatures video.  
     
  Director:  
  Clive Richardson  
     
  Availability:  
  Not commercially available  
     

 

CREDITS

     
  Mad Eyes Screamer Lyrics  
 
 
 

Platform ranting in the trees
Disturbed voices on the breeze
Huddled 'round the mad eyed screamer
A pointed finger, the tin can schemer

Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
A pointed finger, the tin can schemer
Mad eyed screamer, the corner speaker

Could be a preacher, could be a teacher
You want the world to meet you maker
Now the lecher transforms the traitor
With a petrol flaring eye

Come and see the corner speaker
Come and hear his suit drip dry
The passers-by have one obsession
To hear his raving to the sky

Mad eyed screamer on your knees
Mad eyed screamer you are not pleased
With the chatter in the trees
Your balls are freezing in the breeze

Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
Mad eyed screamer, mad eyed screamer
Your balls are freezing in the breeze
Mad eyed screamer you are not pleased

 
     
  Mad Eyes Screamer Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Marimba
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Based on a local character found at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London .  "'Mad Eyed Screamer is about a guy who was at Speaker's Corner on Sundays when I used to go down there, one man in particular that I remember who was just crazed, obsessive and quite frightening."  (Siouxsie)  Source:  Smash Hits 10/81.  
     

 


     
  So Unreal Lyrics  
 
 
 

What can I do, I know they've gotten to you
When you say that your whites have an Ariel blue
What's happened to you since I last saw you
I thought I knew your name, but it's not you
But it's not you

You're talking in a balloon, in this tidy room
Sounding like a commercial for a serial
I wish you could feel the way that I feel
I wish you could feel but you're so unreal
You're so unreal

What can I say, what can I say
All the traits you had have all gone away
Get up and wash at the right time of day
And greet the world with the right things to say
What can I say, what can I say

You're so ideal, you're never down at heel
You're so ideal, but you're so unreal
I wish you could feel the way that I feel
I wish could feel but you're so unreal
You're so unreal

 
     
  So Unreal Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Marimba
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  The novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin.  "It's about meeting someone again who you've known a few years ago, and they're totally conventional and all they care about is their washing machine."  (Siouxsie)  Source:  Smash Hits 10/81.  
     

 


     
  But Not Them Lyrics  
 
 
 

She hates the man and he hates the man
Because something strong inside has been denied them
But not him, oh not him

He hates the girl and she hates the girl
Because something weak implied
They fought to push aside them
But not her, oh not her

The girls isn't alive but the man is dead
Because it's all been said before
The girl isn't alive but the man is dead
Because you only have you mentor to draw, you whore

Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat
Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat

She hates the man and he hates the man
Because something strong inside has been denied them
But not him, oh not him

He hates the girl and she hates the girl
Because something weak implied
They fought to push aside them
But not her, oh not her

The girls isn't alive but the man is dead
Because it's all been said before
The girl isn't alive but the man is dead
Because you only have you mentor to draw from

Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat
Dead lumps of meat melt in this heat

But not them

 
     
  But Not Them Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Marimba
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  "It's about the generation that's getting rid of the old sex roles."  (Siouxsie)  Source:  Smash Hits 10/81.  
     

 


     
  Wild Thing Lyrics  
 
 
 

Wild thing
I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
So come on hold me tight
I love you

Wild thing
I think I hate you
But I wanna know for sure
So come on and hit me hard
I hate you

 
     
  Wild Thing Credits  
     
  The Troggs - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Marimba
 
     

 


     
  Thumb Lyrics  
 
 
 

Wandering through the narrow thoroughfare
The motorway is standing on its own
I see me walking there

One for the road
My thumbs have dropped me on the road
The headlights find my load

Following signs and always taking my time
Following signs these thumbs have lights of their own

One more for the road
Just one more for the road

Digital fun in the sun
Follow my thumb, follow my thumb
These thumbs are my gun
See them dance when I'm blue

This beacon is my fare, anytime, anywhere
Take a ride by my side in the day or the night
Traveling through, some old, some new

Just one more for the road
Just another one for the road

Jump inside little girl, take a ride by my side
There's no end to this ride with this stranger tonight

Just one more for the road
Just another one for the road

Digital fun in the sun
Follow my thumb, follow my thumb

Digital fun in the sun
Follow my thumb,

Follow my thumb, follow my thumb, follow my thumb

 
     
  Thumb Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Marimba