''Who are the Nazis and who are the rats?
(Mixtape 1 Side A)
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| Sleeve - Front |
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| Sleeve - Back |
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| Sleeve Folded Out - Front: Hitler Youth Rally & 'Rat Catcher' |
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Sleeve Folded Out - Back: The Rats
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Stats:
General:
Tracks: Fucked Up @ Signal To Noise Studio 7/22/02 B/W Haymaker @ The Music Gym 2/31/02
Released: Feb 2005
Label: Deep Six Records DS#52
Matrix A: FUCKED UP R-19103 DEEPSIX#49-F
Matrix B: HAYMAKER R-19104 DEEPSIX#49-H
Pressing Info:
1st Press - 1000 (Comprising 200 White and 800 Black vinyl)
2nd - 500 Grey vinyl
3rd - 1000 Clear vinyl, labels on wrong side of disk
4th - ? Translucent 'camo green' vinyl, plain black labels
5th - ? 'Marbled'
6th - ? Green
Variants:
Different vinyl colours as picture below.
Inserts:
No regular insert.
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| Someone at Deep Six missed the memo about not doing variants... Top L-R: White, Black, Grey (1st & 2nd press) Middle L-R: Clear, Camo, Marbled (3rd, 4th & 5th press) Bottom: Green (6th press) |
The Fucked Up tracks were recorded 3 years earlier in July 2002, during the same recording session as ''Police''. The notes below are copied are cropped from a 2010 "fake'' about the band's first CIUT session in 2001 and hopefully relate to three of the tracks on this record...
FU song title AKA's
1. Black Iron Prison - AKA - "A Light That Never Comes On"
2. Dove of Wood - AKA - ????
3. Dove of Wood - AKA - "Red" - AKA - "The Lurking Fear"
4. The Black Rats - AKA - "Quick"
5. Surrounded By Boys -AKA - ????
1. Black Iron Prison is a reference to the concept of social control described by Philip K Dick in his novel VALIS. This track is a polished version of ''A Light That Never Comes On'' one of the songs included on their Demo tape.
Dove of Wood (Track 2): Does this title just symbolise the opposite to a black iron prison? I don't know. Is there another recording of the song somewhere else under a different name? I thought it might be an almost unrecognisably improved and updated version of ''Sleep Tight'' from the demo, because both seem to have a line ending ''...life away'', but other than that it's a different song altogether and all the better for it...
Dove of Wood (Track 3): There are three different recordings of this song on the Epics CD comp, it was originally called ''The Lurking Fear'' but was later named ''Red''. There are 3 versions of it on the Epics in Minutes CD comp (Deranged version). Here it gets a 4th recording and a 3rd name, but it has to share it with track 2.
The Black Rats: FU have a long association with rats. They have also been associated a zine that had it's name changed to 'Quick', which is also what this song was called when played with less skill for the CIUT session.
Surrounded by Boys: Like track 2, this might be a version of an early song with new lyrics and music; something only it's mother would recognise in its mature form, to anyone else it first appeared here as a fresh new 2-minute wonder.
Following, is another early song claimed to appear on this split under a fake name (see ''fake'' link above). See also tracks 2 & 5. See also history of fake claims made by FU.
Sleeve Notes:
The Rat Catcher
When the sleeve is unfolded, this panel is arranged with its upper edge meeting the upper edge of the main sleeve image. In this context it can be read as a metaphorical reflection on the Hitler Youth Rally via the Pied Piper of Hamelin, with the Nazi's as self styled rat catchers who end up leading the children away.
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Commodity Fetishism:
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| Test press from first press |
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| Test press, probably for one of the later presses, with 'Psychotic Little Man' hand-drawn cover by Jeff Beckman (Haymaker) |
