Samples Used in MSP Songs

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• 'Democracy Coma' - it's a mixture of Allen ginsberg's HOWL - 'the hospitals, jails...whole intellects disgorged in total recall' and a slowed down line from the song - 'in walkman sounds hear sony control'.

• 'Spectators of Suicide' (Heavenly) - is this Malcolm X?

• 'Motown Junk' - "Revolution" is apparently Public Enemy - song? album? There is also a sample from 'Charles' by the Skids

• 'Little Baby Nothing' - from the film 'A Streetcar Named Desire', starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. The words however are spoken by Kim Hunter. (The sample only appears on earlier pressings of "Generation Terrorists")

• 'Repeat UK' - "London, England, consider yourself warned" comes from the track 'Countdown to Armageddon' on the Public Enemy album 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' - apparently recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon.

• 'Starlover' - "You blind baby" comes from the song 'She Watch Channel Zero' on the same Public Enemy album.

• 'Loves Sweet Exile' - The poetry at the beginning is read by Patrick Jones, Nickys brother.

• 'Yes' - from channel 4's Red Light Zone season show called, "Pimps, Pros, Hookers, and their Johns". The sample came from the director of the film being led around a whorehouse being told everyone was for sale

• 'IfwhiteAmerica...' is from a program shown on GOP (Grand Old Party = Republican Party) cable T.V. Public Access show (hosted by Laurie Pike?), called "United States of Television". The sample probably comes from a Channel 4 programme about US Public Access TV.

• 'Archives of Pain' - "I wonder who you think you are?" is a famous quote from the mother of one of the girls killed by the Yorkshire Ripper (see below) said to camera outside the court room in Leeds.

• 'Of Walking Abortion' - The clip about "regretting my entire life and wanting to live it over again" is in fact ex-President Lyndon B. Johnson talking after his exit from the Whitehouse.

• '4St 7lb' - may come from a programme in the 'Video Diaries' series about the life of a bulimic. The girl in question was Samantha, one of the twin sisters whose story was all over the papers recently - at least one of them died. She was too weak to stand up, or even to support her own weight unaided.

• 'Faster' - "I hate purity,hate goodness....."This is said by John Hurt in the film of George Orwell's "1984"

• 'Mausoleum' - "I wanted to rub the human face in it's own vomit... to force it to look in the mirror" is from J. G. Ballard talking about his book 'Crash' which deals with the relationship between sex and automobile accidents

• 'The Intense Humming of Evil' - Possibly from footage of the Neuremburg trials?

• 'P.C.P.' - "227 Lears (as in King Lear) and I can't remember the first line" comes from a film 'The Dresser', with Tom Courtenay playing the dresser, and possibly Albert Finney as an old actor speaking these lines.

• 'Elvis Impersonator' - finishes with a sample of the song 'Dixie', extremely distorted.

• 'Black Garden' (B-side to "Everything Must Go" single) - Starts with distorted and echo'd 'Battle Hymn Of The Republic'