Luscious Apparatus
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03. Luscious Apparatus List of Unsound Methods songs |
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Luscious Apparatus
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| Song | Luscious Apparatus |
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| By | Recoil |
| Songwriter | Alan Wilder Maggie Estep |
| Produced by | Alan Wilder |
| Recorded at | The Thin Line (Sussex) |
| Mixed by | Alan Wilder |
| Mixing assistance | Paul Stevens Simon Shazell |
| Mastered by | Ian Cooper |
| Studio assistance | Hepzibah Sessa |
| Published by | Mute Song Not Normal Music Zoetrope Music Company Carlin Music Corp. Chappell, Inc. Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. |
| Recorded | September 1996 - June 1997 |
| Originally released | 27 October 1997 |
| Live performances as Recoil | 0 times * |
| Total live performances | 0 times * |
"Luscious Apparatus" is a song from the 1997 album Unsound Methods by Recoil.
Lyrics
Luscious Apparatus
Carla was on her break from the
Graveyard shift at the mayonnaise factory
She sat at a teetering picnic table
There was a toxic orange moon
And it was slightly cold
Carla took out her knife and began etching
Random words into the table's surface
Then, she thought of her co-worker Jack
Carla liked to think of Jack
As a luscious apparatus
He was meaty but graceful
His flesh seemed folded onto his body
Like a suit made of meat
Carla started to think of Jack as a
Luscious apparatus in a meat suit
Thinking this gave Carla a dreamy smile
Her mouth was small to begin with
But dreaming made it even smaller
That's just how some people are
Their mouths get smaller with dream
Carla's small mouth was dreaming
As her knife began carving a poem into the table
I like hot voids, smooth pants, lazy beds in the rain
I like tongue petals, lather, a blistering sun
but what I like best is the worship
Of a luscious apparatus
When Carla was done carving
She went back to her work station
And scooped shiny white goop into jars
That's just how some people are
Their mouths get smaller with dreaming
The next day Jack took his own 1am lunch break
At the same picnic table
He noticed the poem carved into the wood
Although he didn't know who had written it
He coincidentally thought
'Luscious Apparatus' aptly described him
So he took out his own knife and wrote
'Luscious apparatus was here'
After a few days both Jack and Carla
Happened to sit at the picnic table
At the same time
They both started to look
At the things carved in the table
Then they looked at each other
They knew who each other was
Carla's mouth got small and dreamy
Jack's eyes got round and hot
When they got done
With the graveyard shift
They went back to Jack's apartment
And had sex
Wordless sex, slow sex
Fast sex, talking sex
Sex like animals have
Sex like boys have, sex like girls have
Sex upside down, sex inside out
Sex with grins, sex with tears
Sex, sex, sex
Then she noticed the knife by the side of Jack's bed
Jack picked the knife up And Carla knew at once
That Jack's wounds were from carving himself
Jack was trying to carve poems into himself
And now he wanted to carve some in her
This was where she drew the line
She'd have any kind of sex but not with a knife
When Carla refused to let Jack carve her up
Jack felt cheated and misled
He felt that by carving a poem in the table
Carla had been begging to be carved upon
Carla didn't see it that way at all
She got up and started putting on her clothes
Jack went nuts, he was coming at her with a knife
Carla was scared, Carla was shaking and sweating
Then, because she was small and could move fast
She ducked and Jack tripped and fell
And impaled himself in the arm with his own knife
He howled and howled and Carla got the hell out of there fast
Carla didn't think of Jack as a luscious apparatus after that
Songwriter: Alan Wilder/Maggie Estep
Publishing Information: ℗ 1997 Reprise Records
Composition
Sample sources
| "Luscious Apparatus" Recoil 1997
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| Reversed guitar, bass guitar, breath | Wiseblood - PTTM - "Hey Bop a Ree Bop" - 9 September 1991 |
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A reversed section of audio derived from "Hey Bop a Ree Bop" by Wiseblood is utilised sporadically throughout "Luscious Apparatus". | Click to display/hide audio example | |
| Bass guitar | Lotion - full Isaac - "Tear" - 1994 |
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A manipulated sample derived from the opening moments of "Tear" by Lotion featuring a bass guitar performance by Lotion bassist Bill Ferguson is utilised throughout "Luscious Apparatus". | Click to display/hide audio example | |
| Guitar elements | Mother Goose - Too Many Tintins - "Wintertime" - 22 March 1993 |
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A guitar chord sampled from the outro of "Wintertime" by Mother Goose as featured on the 1993 Paul Kendall-produced album Too Many Tintins is utilised sporadically throughout "Luscious Apparatus". | Click to display/hide audio example | |
| Percussive elements | Mick Harvey - Altea Marea & Vaterland - "The Mountain, Pt. 1" - 1993 |
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A manipulated sample of audio derived from the opening moments of "The Mountain, Pt. 1" by Mick Harvey is utilised sporadically throughout "Luscious Apparatus". | Click to display/hide audio example | |
| Reversed ambient pad | Sergio Cervetti - The Hay Wain - "Fall Of The Rebel Angels" - 1987 |
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A manipulated ambient pad derived from "Fall Of The Rebel Angels" by Sergio Cervetti is utilised sporadically throughout "Luscious Apparatus". | Click to display/hide audio example | |
| Guitar elements | The Cure - "Club America" - 1996 |
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Dissonant guitar atmospherics from the opening moments of "Club America" by the Cure are utilised mid-way through "Luscious Apparatus". | ||
| Guitar elements | The Creatures - Anima Animus - "Disconnected" - 15 February 1999[footnotes 1] |
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A section of audio featuring screeching guitar atmospherics utilised mid-way through "Luscious Apparatus" is likely derived from the outro of "Disconnected", an album track recorded by The Creatures with Siouxsie Sioux between 1995 and 1997 for the 1999 album Anima Animus. Notably, Anima Animus was co-produced by Recoil and Depeche Mode associate Steve Lyon, who assisted in the production and programming of Unsound Methods. |
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Dates where Luscious Apparatus was played
Luscious Apparatus has never been played live.
Notes
- ↑ Though unconfirmed as of January 2023, it is possible an advance copy or (more likely) stems for select works featured on Anima Animus were made available to Wilder through Steve Lyon, who produced Anima Animus between 1995 and 1997 while assisting in the production and programming of Unsound Methods (recorded between September 1996 and March 1997 with a release date of 27 October 1997).
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