The Foetus All-Nude Revue - Bedrock

12"EP  Jul1987  Self Immolation / Some Bizarre  #WOMB FAN 13  Made in the UK

12"EP  1987  Self Immolation /Some Bizarre / Relativity  #88561-8186-1  Made in the US

CS  1987  Self Immolation / Some Bizarre / Relativity  #88561-8186-4  Made in the US

Face A:

01)  Bedrock

Face B:

02)  Diabolus In Musica

03)  Shut

04)  Rattlesnake Insurance

05)  Bedrock Strip

Cover / liner / label notes:

FACE A 45 RPM  FACE B 33 RPM

ALL SONGS WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND PERFORMED BY THE FOETUS ALL-NUDE REVUE.

A SELF IMMOLATION / SOME BIZARRE ENTERPRISE.  PUBLISHED BY DIMEHART

GIVE ME A HOME WHERE THE DINOSAURS ROAM

RECORDED AT MILO AND PARADISE, LONDON

ENGINEERED BY CHARLES GRAY AND WARNE LIVESEY

(Diabolus In Musica:)

"mi contra fa

Diabolus est in musica"

  Diabolus in Musica was a medieval term for the tritone (augmented fourth or diminished fifth).  It divides the octave into two equal parts (in this case C and F#).

  In the medieval system of church modes the tritone was the most conspicuous as the interval between the final and the fourth degree of the modes on F, the Lydian and Hypolydian.

  The first mention of the word "tritonus" seems to be in the 9th or 10th century organum treatise "Musica Enchiriadis", though it was not explicitly prohibited until the development of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal system.  From then until the end of the Renaissance the tritone, nicknamed Diabolus in Musica, was regarded as a dangerous interval associated with evil and was banned by the chirch as being thought to summon Satan.

  Those found using the chord were routinely subjected to slow torturous death by genital mutilation and the administering of such implements as the skull crusher, the breast breaker and the wheel.  Burnings at the stake were also favoured.

RECOMMENDED LISTENING CONDITIONS: BLACKNESS; OXYGEN AT LISTENERS DISCRETION; EXTREME STEREO OR HEADPHONES; LARGE VOLUME MANDATORY.

(Bedrock Strip:)

(for Mick Harvey)

SLEEVE NOTES BY J.G. THIRLWELL

SLEEVE DESIGN BY J.G. THIRLWELL

EXECUTION: MX/Ai

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY J.G. THIRLWELL

MIXED AT LIVINGSTON, LONDON

Notes:

"Bedrock", "Shut" and "Rattlesnake Insurance" also appear in their original forms on the Sink release, as does "Diabolus In Musica" in an edited form.  "Shut" also appears in the same form on the Various Artists Ish release.

"Diabolus In Musica" also appears in raw form in the Richard Kern film The Manhattan Love Suicides.

Included a printed paper inner sleeve, with the notes above, as well as lyrics.