When in Rome, Kill Me | ||||
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Released | June 1989 | |||
Recorded | March 1989 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 39:51 | |||
Label | Imaginary Records (United Kingdom) | |||
Producer | Alaric Neville, Richard Formby | |||
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When in Rome, Kill Me is the debut album [2] by the Leeds-based [3] indie rock band Cud, released through Imaginary Records The album was recorded during March 1989 at the Woodhouse Studios in Leeds with Alaric Neville and Richard Formby handling production. [4]
Side 1 of the LP (first seven songs on CD) are linked by short narrative segments (narrated by Cud's drummer Steve Goodwin's landlord John Farrell and Elizabeth Cuthbertson as Bibi [4] ) such that the first half of the album loosely forms a single story. In this story, it is implied that the protagonist flees Whitby to Rome after committing some undisclosed crime. There he is reunited with Bibi, possibly an accomplice in the crime, with whom he sleeps, but the following morning he wakes to find Bibi has left and grassed him to the police. We leave the protagonist drunk in a bar, as police sirens approach, with him rueing, "I would have got away with it, if it hadn't been for those bastard, bastard meddling kids."
"Only (A Prawn in Whitby)" was supposedly inspired by a chance encounter by Cud's manager with Morrissey. Allegedly, the vegetarian lead singer of the Smiths was seen partaking of a single prawn. The story is now accepted to be apocryphal.
The album reached number three in the UK Indie Chart in 1989. [5]
Side 1 - there are related comments to the narrative shown on the album and in brackets after each track)
Side 2
An expanded CD version (without Bomba Boy) was released through Cherry Red Records in 2007 and included previously unreleased bonus tracks
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