You're Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1), by Sun City Girls

You're Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1)

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1.	100 Pounds of Black Olives 05:10	buy track
2.	Sev Acher 03:12	buy track
3.	Souvenirs from Jangare 04:20	buy track
4.	Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling 06:47	buy track
5.	Amazon One 02:56	buy track
6.	The Beauty of Benghazi 01:32	buy track
7.	Wild World of Animals 02:33	buy track
8.	Harmful Little Armful (For Will Shatter) 00:45	buy track
9.	The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria 12:00	buy track

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Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls' most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2LP idea was presented to them but Majora Records quickly stepped in to begin releasing most of the material. Included here are five tracks from early Majora singles: "100 Pounds of Black Olives" and "The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria" (the complete previously unreleased 12-minute version) from the single "You're Never Alone with a Cigarette" and all three tracks from Record #1 of the double 7" Three Fake Female Orgasms -- "Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling," "The Beauty of Benghazi," and "Souvenirs from Jangare." The short piece "Harmful Little Armful" is from the triple 7" box set Bruce Lee, Heroin, and the Punk Scene (from a Bay Area label Massacre at Central High) and rounding out the set are three unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the Torch LP: never-before-heard versions of "Amazon One," "Sev Acher," and "Wild World of Animals." This is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records.

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released March 19, 2015

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