s'irS'o 'Bag (hB-b2. Tb vim Album... CARRIER LIMITED EDITION IN SPECIAL B-52'S PLASTIC ISIANP 2 SMASH HITS U^' WEST ONE September 4—17 1980 The Ruts 4 Vol. 2 No. 18 EIGHTH DAY Chewing thoughtfully on a Hazel O'Connor 4 sherbert fountain he surveyed CIRCUS GAMES the desk top. As usual, it looked Skids like a cross between the Greater 5 London Tip and a sleazy canteen. I WANT TO BE STRAIGHT He knew that somewhere under Ian Dury 8 all that lot was an article on Ian Dury and Wilko Johnson; an PARANOID interview with the extremely tall Black Sabbath 14 Grace Jones and a brilliant piece of investigative journalism about UNITED the charts. But where? Lifting up Judas Priest 14 the pile of twenty five Bad Manners albums set aside as BIKO Editor competition prizes he knocked Peter Gabriel 18 over a stack of back numbers of Ian Cranna "World Domination For The Features Editor CANT STOP THE MUSIC Beginner", unintentionally David Hepworth Village People 19 disturbing the office cat which Design Editor had spent the last week MARIE MARIE Steve Bush fashioning a nest out of a set of Shakin' Stevens 24 Nolans singles. It was no good. Production Editor This was a job for a professional, Kasper de Graaf IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME someone used to probing in dark Editorial Assistants Billy Joel 24 corners without scruples. Picking BevHillier SCULPTURES up the phone with a look of Linda Duff GOOD triumph, he lobbed another Contributors Rezillos 29 gobstopper in his mouth and Robin Katz dialled. "Hello. Is Zitty Ben there SARTORIAL ELOQUENCE Red Starr by any chance?" 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FRONT COVER PIC: ADRIAN BOOT SMASH HITS 3 West One (Shine On Me) The Ruts on Virgin Records Lights are burning red and white Lost on an island in the night Rescue me or here I stay A traffic island castaway Lost in a bar Inside it's only me who's straight Out in the dark and on my own Shine on me I'm stranded here with no way home Shine on me Glasses smash full of champagne It trickles down the drain A treat for sewer rats You're like a rat when you get high People falling on the floor Or running out the door Lights in the night burning red and white Shine on me so I can see Out in the cold, out on my own (out on my own) Shine on me so I can see Shine on me Out in the dark and on my own I'm stranded here with no way home Shine on me Out in the dark standing here alone Shine on me Out in the night where traffic wardens roam Shine on me On an island where you abandoned me (shine on me) Shine on me Hazel O'Connor Lights are burning bright so I don't see (shine on me) Shine on me on A&M Records Lights in the night burning red and white (shine on me) Shine on me In the beginning was a world Shine on me so I can see (shine on me) Man said "Let there be mcfe light Shine on me Electric scenes, amazer Beams Shine on me so I can see (shine on me) Neon brights to light our boring nights" Shine on me Shine on me {repeat to fade) On the second day he said "Lei's have a gas Hydrogen & Co. are of the past Words and music by The Ruts Let's make some germs, poison the worms Reproduced by permission Virgin Music Publishers Ltd. Man will never be surpassed" Chorus And he said "Behold what I have done I've made a better world for everyone Nobody laugh, nobody cry A world without end, forever and ever amen, amen, amen" On the third we get green and blue pill pie CIRCUS GAMES On the fourth we send rockets to the sky on Virgin Records On the fifth metal beasts and submarines Mission is a gambler circus On the sixth man prepares his final dream Come and play games The wager, the one card, to play Come and play at circus games Priest has this burden In our image let's make robots for our slaves He thinks, the right thing, to say Mother is a gambler Imagine all the time that we can save Amid all the honour Computers, machines, the silicon dream The wager, the one card, to play He sees, the wrong one, to share Seventh he retired from the scene Birth has this burden Since child is an angel She says no children today The duty, the one card, prepare Repeat chorus Midst all dishonour She sees a heavenly noose child is angel On the eighth day machine just got upset Jury is our gambler Since an A problem man had not foreseen as yet The wager, the one card, to play The mother, the one child, set loose No time for flight, a blinding light Judge has this burden chorus And nothing but a void forever night He tells, the wrong one, to pay Repeat Amid all the honour Come and play circus games He said "Behold what man has done He puts, the wrong one, to trial Come and play There's not a world for anyone Since child is an angel Nobody laugh, nobody cry No jury, but one card, so vile Come and play circus games A world at an end, everyone has died forever amen, amen, amen' Come and play Chorus Repeat chorus Repeat last verse Come and play circus games Words and music by Hazel O'Connor Come and play at circus games Words and music by The Skids. Come and play circus games Reproduced by permission Virgin Music/Arnakata Reproduced by permission Albion Music Ltd. Come and play at circus games Music. SMASH HITS 5 major tours can militate drive to retain control, to keep against around. What to do? Do Roger you there. What's going to things the reasons for playing in the first on a reasonable scale and Waters or Jeff Lynne even realise happen next? Is everybody going place. If you're just a wreck, why provide musicians with a the price of bread? to stop applauding and start should anyone to framework within which to do pay see you? throwing things? Now, those things Since coming off the road he's which are no big deal. The IAN : "People want to buy kind of worries you can't express freedom to fail, if you like. been devoting time to getting records that from come people to anyone and I found myself himself into shape, watching his that they really like who make expressing them in the most diet and swimming daily. His IAN : "It's whoever's on it at the music that is about them and childish ways. By throwing what feelings find expression in "I time's label. As a label it doesn't about what they care about and are known in the trade as Want To Straight". have any acts; it just makes Be the people that make those Wobblers." records. There aren't any slf)ned records can't tell lies. They don't IAN : "You soon get too acts to the label. IAN : "It's a Jolly 'Ian and the lads There are just want to remove themselves from demanding. If you've got friends see the error of their ways' thing. The Blockheads who are the that environment; they want to who don't mind telling you when It's one of those." musicians hopefully, with the be there in it and the music they you're out of order then you're guest artists." WILKO: "Everybody understands make to be part of and about that lucky." WILKO: "It's just taking that feeling. Everybody's had it environment. musicians away from the areas at one time or another." "It's not a new thing. Black that they've established for IAN: "If Elvis Presley had eaten music has always been about They make an interesting themselves and saying 'Now do green vegetables he'd still be that. It's always been a directly twosome, these fellows. Both of this'. Like 'Oh Lonesome Me'." alive. That's what everybody related art form to the people it's them fathers, both in their thirties keeps telling me.