The Slits by Caroline Coon

NEW RELEASE RECORD STORE DAY 4.20

PRESSED ON TRANSPARENT BLUE VINYL

Tracklist
1. Vindictive
2. A Boring Life*
3. Slime*
4. New Town
5. Love & Romance
6. Shoplifting
7. Number One Enemy
8. Number One Enemy (acoustic) (guest vocal from Nina Hagen)
9. In The Beginning
10. New Town
11. Man Next Door
12. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
13. Typical Girls
14. Fade Away*
15. In The Beginning (guest vocal from Neneh Cherry)
Tracks 1-7 Live at Dingwalls, London 9/77; 8 live in rehearsal; 9-14 Live in Cincinnati & San Francisco 1980; 15 Live at Hammersmith Palais, Dec. 1981 (last ever show).
*Never previously recorded

THE

ARE

SLITS

GIRLS

READ PALMOLIVE’S LYRICS

  • You sit up there deciding my future

    What the fuck do you think you are

    Changing buses and raising taxes

    Changing things as you please

    You want me to take part of it

    Like all the people

    And you want to swallow me

    But you might get indigestion 'cause

    I'm going to be your Number one enemy

    If you like white, I'll be black

    If you like black, I'll be yellow

    If you like rational, I'll be impossible

    If you like reasonable, I'll be insane

    If you like peace and flowers

    I'm going to carry knives and chains

    I'm going to be your Number one enemy

    All for the hell of it

    Give me ten and I'll take hundreds

    Give me hundreds, I'll need thousands

    Never mind what you think

    Never mind what people say

    Don't try to be nice to me

    'Cause I'm your enemy

    Don't be inflexible

    because I''l go to kill

    I'm going to be your Number one enemy

    All for the hell of it

  • Put the cheddar in the pocket

    Put the rest under the jacket

    I’ll talk to the cashier, he won't suspect

    And if he does….

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Ten quid for the lot

    We pay fuck all

    Babylonian won't lose much

    And we'll have dinner tonight

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    The bastard is trying to watch us through the mirrors and TV

    But they're not gonna catch us

    'Cause we're gonna gonna gonna run run run

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Do a runner

    Run

    Ten quid for the lot

    We pay fuck all

    Babylonian won't lose much

    And we'll have dinner tonight

    Do a runner

  • Newtown where everybody goes around

    sniffing Televisina or taking Footballina

    Newtown Newtown

    Newtown Newtown ( X3)

    Gimme another fix

    Gimme another fix

    If not I'll go sick

    I'll go sick

    I'll be sick

    ( Music Break)

    Gimme another fix

    Gimme another fix

    If not I'll go sick

    I'll go sick

    I'll be sick

    Morning papers will bring you something flash

    Make your bones shake and keep busy your mind

    Newtown Newtown

    Newtown Newtown ( X3)

    Oh oh Gimme another fix

    Oh oh Gimme another fix

    If not I'll go sick

    I'll go sick

    I'll be sick sick sick sick

    Morning papers, Mr. Simpson is a Big Ben freak”

    Sniffing Punctualina or taking Clockaina

    Newtown Newtown

    Newtown Newtown ( X3)

    ( Music Break)

    Oh, oh Gimme another fix

    I, I, I need another fix

    If not I'll go sick

    I'll be sick

    I'll be sick

    Newtown

    Newtown downtown,

    Bum around, feeling down

    Reggae songs coming out

    Football crowds all around

    Dropping PC late at night

    Kids are waiting for a fight

    Newtown

  • I live in a town with a hundred lights around,

    my head is like a radio set,

    I'm waiting to hear what program is next.

    What program is next? (FM)

    Frequent Mutilation transmits over the air,

    serving for the purpose

    of those who want you to fear.

    They say it's all right, but suspicion creeps in

    my nightmares don't project my dreams

    I can't but wonder what's feeding my screen.

    What's feeding my screen? (FM)

    Frequent Mutilation transmits over the air,

    serving for the purpose

    of those who want you to fear.

    Thousand nights of confusion wedged in my mind

    breaking down another illusion,

    today's transmission will give me the solution.

    Frequent Mutilation transmits over the air,

    serving for the purpose

    of those who want you to fear.

  • Passion that shouts

    and red with anger

    I lost myself

    Through alleys of mysteries

    I went up and down

    like a demented train.

    (Chorus)

    Don’t take it personal

    I choose my own fate

    I follow love

    I follow hate.

    Searching for something

    that makes hearts move.

    I found myself.

    But my best possession

    walked into the shade

    and threatened to drift away.

    Full of myself

    I left you behind as if I could.

    Possessed by Quixote’s Dream

    went to fight dragons

    in the land of concrete.

    (Chorus)

    Don’t take it personal

    I choose my own fate

    I follow love

    I follow hate.

    Rolling in pain

    Discovered what hurts

    and tasted hell.

    Infatuated by madness

    I danced in flames

    and drunk in the depths of love.

⋆THE STORY OF THE SLITS⋆

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!
— Kathleen Hanna
MADONNA bow down, these are THE SLITS.
— Don Letts

A 72 page reproduction of The Slits’ bass player Tessa Pollitt’s scrapbook documenting the story of the rise and success of The Slits. Contains cuttings from NME, Sounds, Melody Maker,  Zigzag and more.

Scrapbook comes packaged with the acclaimed 2018 documentary “Here To Be Heard, The Story of the Slits” on DVD.

⋆THE JOHN PEEL SESSIONS⋆

John Peel Session 1977

“The two sessions the Slits did during the punk era were magical.”

— John Peel

John Peel Session 1978