Stewart Home Comes In Your Face

STEWART HOME COMES IN YOUR FACE/DOLPHINS PUNKROCKDRUNK LIVE. SPLIT CD. Sabotage Editions, BM Senior, London WC1N 3XX. Catalogue number HNTSAB 001. Released 1998.

Stewart Home Comes In Your Face
Stewart Home - guitar, vocals.
Gondi - bass, backing vocals, extra guitar on tracks 1,7 & 12.
Elias Lonnnrot - drums, backing vocals.
Recorded at Toe-Rag Studios, London 17/11/96. Mixed at Toe-Rag Studios, London 27/11/96. Produced by Ed Dougan, Stewart Home, Gondi and Elias Liinnrot.

These songs were written between 1979 and 1986, they were 'originally' performed by various groups put together by Stewart Home. Some of the lyrics appeared disguised as the work of the almost fictional punk band Alienation in Home s first novel Pure Mania. (Polygon, Edinburgh 1989). Unfortunately, no decent quality contemporary tapes of the tunes have survived, so they've been re-recorded. Arsehole is about John J. Clarke who still runs the History Of Ideas department at Kingston University and is responsible for tosh such as Oriental Enlightenment (Routledge, London 1997); the chord sequence dates from 1980, the lyric from 1984 and the final arrangement from 1985 - the date 1984 in the lyric has been updated to 1997. The complete lyrics and all recordings of the 'original' Towards A Gay Communism dating from 1985 have been lost and the song is reconstructed with the addition of words and chord sequences from two different numbers written in 1982 and 1985 respectively, plus additional material from a short story by Stewart Home. The lyrics to Necrophile were written in 1979 but there are no extant recordings of the song and the chord sequence comes from a different tune written at the same time. 13 O'Clock was written in 1980 and was 'originally' performed with a guitar solo which has been omitted on the grounds that solos are boring. The lyrics to My Baby's Got Syphilis were written in 1982 but the original tune was scrapped in 1985 and the chord sequence featured here adopted at that time, the second line of the first verse was modified during this recording. Storm The Yuppie Homes dates from 1982 but the 'original' words were discarded in 1986 when the lyrics featured here were compiled. All the other tunes were written and arranged in the 1985/6 period when Stewart Home formed the band Le Pissoir with John Flush and Dolly Zippy. Home wrote many other songs between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four but unless he is offered substantial amounts of cash, it is unlikely that many more of them will be re-recorded. An analysis of the dialectics of punk by Stewart Home can be found in his book Cranked Up Really High: Genre Theory & Punk Rock (Codex, Hove 1995).

Yantoh was one of several bonus tracks. Home recorded Yantoh on a four-track machine in Hampton one sunny summer afternoon in 1984. He'd gone to record a backing track for a performance piece and had a bit of time left over, so he wrote this ditty about the Neoist Wonder Dog on the spot. Yantoh may be Welsh for 'old boy' or might mean something very rude indeed ~ Home isn't letting on. The use of digital delay on the vocals is completely overdone, Home had never had the opportunity to play with this effect before and better songs have been ruined by self indulgence of this type.