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Drug Machine
Sub Pop - SP28 - Jun 1989


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This is a quirky release on Sub Pop label, who asked The Flaming Lips to contribute to their 'singles club' series. The title track is a reworking of the song Drug Machine in Heaven that appeared on Telepathic Surgery, and is backed with a curious medley of two cover versions, The Sonics' Strychnine and Nick Lowe's What's So Funny ('Bout Peace Love and Understanding); needless to say, there is a funny story behind that incongruous pairing, but it is well documented elsewhere

The single was released in a screen-printed picture sleeve with striking graphics by Art Chantry, and limited to 1500 copies. A further 1500 copies were released in Europe on the German Glitterhouse Records label, with the same artwork but with the colours reversed.

See also:
Drug Machine (Glitterhouse)
Telepathic Surgery (Enigma)

Tracklist:

  1. Drug Machine
  2. Strychnine
  3. What's So Funny (About Peace, Love and Understanding)

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