Peace vs. Liberty 00:35
Map Ref. 50 50N 0 10W (King Edward Memorial Song) 03:03
[{Now (That)} You’ve] Gone 02:42
Time Will Come 02:55
(Studio) 5-6-7 02:30
The Poet’s I 03:21
Greystoked! 03:30
Lucy Leave

(NB The track ‘Lucy Leave’ is omitted from this online version)

“Not your usual brand of post-punk Pigfuckers, Pink Stainless Tail have style. Troughs of it. Simom Strong is a diva-.throwing jagged verbal hatchets. at soft targets. His uncanny resemblance to Everett Sloan in Lady from Shanghai (sans gammy leg and Rita Hayworth) could freak out Sloan’s nieces in the off chance they dropped in on a PST performance at a punk club even though I know this is about as likely as me joining Simon on stage with a piccolo. But Simon truly is sick. He would probably enjoy a book that was written without I’s, h’s, es, i’s and k’s. He needs to be reckoned with. Meanwhile the example Harry Howard sets every time he straps on a guitar in front of a crowd is a special one. Combine his stately appearance with his scratchy guitar and the way it expels velvet-adorned riffs and he is good on both the eye and the ear. The drummer wears awesome hats. I enjoy the bass solo that transpires after Simon yells `Step on it, Nate!’ on Map. Ref 50 50N 0 10W and how Nate follows these orders by mashing his guitar with his foot.

The death-defying Time Will Come will encourage you to trap the band in an alleyway and hypnotise them with finger cymbals and hot steaks. The words and music on 5-6-7 is, like the best song Chris Knox never wrote forThe Fall. I am unsure if the first words to Greystoked! are “Me Tamazepam, Huge joint” but they really deserve to be: EIsewhere in the song I identify the sound of a kookaburra, a grey digger squirrel, two monkeys smuggling frankfurters, a cacophony of mating pigs and the depressing sound of a guy pretending to burp his pants. In a normal business climate, it would-be single of the year. otherwise this sozzled ditty documents what could only be the most revolting party in the history of mankind.

I leave you with these lyrics from a song that is not Greystoked:”All the houses you inhabit I and the gardens that you tend / Cannot convince me other than I the dark is my best friend. Beware the groynes you cannot see / When the tide comes up the beach /The sea will take out your old shit / And bring new shit within reach”. Pure poetry. I just -listed several reasons why y’o’u should join Pink Stainless Tail in the park naked. Now you – tell me you do it because you like the flowers. Keep in mind a grieving dog (uncredited) probably starved to make this record. ”
– Shane Moritz, Beat magazine

credits

released May 13, 2005

Recorded and produced by Simon Grounds and PST at Grounds Zero. Cover by Maisie.

Nick Boddington (bass)
Harry Howard (guitar)
Sonke Rickertsen (drums)
Simon Strong (voice)

Pink Stainless Tail

The Infinite Wisdom of the Pink Stainless Tail – CD

The Skys a Soft Target – CD

This is me in the park with no clothes on… I like the flowers – CD