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Faith Healer Faith Healer
Like lots of Rob's lyrics this can be interpreted in multiple ways.
Tramspotting (El Nino) Tramspotting (El Nino)
The first recorded version of Tramspotting, with the loveable Nino La Scala on drums, hence the title.
Leash Leash
To this day Rob still won't tell me who this song is about. The music was born one day while mucking around with a delay pedal and sorting through pages of Rob's lyrics.
Fragile Fragile
Here's the stripped-down three-minute pop song version with most of the extravagant and self-indulgent guitar solos removed.
She's My Bodhisattva She's My Bodhisattva
This song is a true story. Everything in this song happened, except the bits that didn't.
Sick Surprise Sick Surprise
Another song based on a true story. The names have been changed to protect the guilty parties.
My Favourite Curse My Favourite Curse
The obligatory ballad. Kind of. It's a bit nastier than a ballad.
Dirty Fur Disco Dirty Fur Disco
In Sphincter Rob and I wrote a song called "Bob". I wrote new music for it and it became "Funky Bob" until the current title came to me in a very very strange dream, in huge red neon letters.
Cape Kennedy Cape Kennedy
After the demise of Sphincter, this is one of the first songs we wrote for the new band.
Manchurian Candidate, Anyone? Manchurian Candidate, Anyone?
Rob and Ro used to be heavily into conspiracy theory. This song proves it. Rohan's dog Explodey can be heard growling over the rhythm guitar in the breakdown before the solo.
Fragile (long version) Fragile (long version)
This was the version of Fragile we used to play as a band, with all the guitar solos intact. Funny, this was supposed to be a three-minute pop song...
Sympathy For The Pensioner Sympathy For The Pensioner
This song was written for a completely different project of Rob & Ro's... called God's Little Accidents. Sympathy made the transition from acoustic based comedy to angst rock quite nicely.
Better Than Here Better Than Here
Originally titled "Gone", an ex-girlfriend song that was never going to make the album. I played everything on this, even the drums! (Rob helped with some nice harmonies)
Fragile (acoustic) Fragile (acoustic)
Acoustic version of Fragile, recorded in Dec 2009, just for the hell of it. This is probably the closest to how it sounded when we first wrote it. One of the fastest songs we ever wrote, it came together in literally 10 minutes.
