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Excuse Me While I Borrow Your Head – The latest track by Robert Courtney, One Million Fuzztone Guitars & Skin Patrol

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One of my favorite songs, about Magick and Mind Control, was recorded on a defunct DAW on an ancient Acer computer that fell apart when trying to mix it last year, and now it’s been rescued in Cubase 12 Pro and finally released into the world.

“I like EMWIBYourHead – real nasty drum noises on it may push it further. Treasure Trove”. AR

“Nice! Leaning a little into Arctic Monkeys territory with the vibe (a good thing, in my book). You’re welcome to use the photo”. SH

“Robert Courtney stands firm and solid in his own niche of post-everything cultural excellence with a truck-full of uplifting little gems” AQ

lyrics

Excuse Me While I Borrow Your Head

I wanna know how you feel
When you do the things you do
I wanna know if it’s real
To have the love flow through
I wanna know what it feels like
In your skin
So if you don’t mind
I’ll just slip right in

It’s’ calling me
Some things are better left unsaid
So excuse me while I
Borrow your head

I got a JuJu, baby
Wrapped in black velvet
I got the knife of destiny
And a starry sky helmet
I’ve got a secret stash
Of incense from Madras
And a potent elixir
Made from Jesus’ tears

I wanna know what it feels like
In your skin
So if you don’t mind
I’ll just slip on in
Now I’m too polite to ask, but
I’ve got just one more task
So excuse me while I
Borrow your mask

credits

released February 24, 2023
Music & Lyrics: Robert Courtney
All instruments and vocals: Robert Courtney
Sleeve photography: Steve Harvey & design: Robert Courtney

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Landslide, the latest single by One Million Fuzztone Guitars is out now!

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Landslide (the first version of Everything’s Happening): A high-energy uplifting rock anthem with a story: “Some time ago I had a dream vision that I was in Chislehurst Caves (a 60’s rock venue in Kent that I had no knowledge of at the time but later went to), watching Led Zeppelin play the song that later became the first One Million Fuzztone Guitars single ‘Annuese’ Next on was The Doors, Jim Morrison walked across to me at the side of the stage, leaned down, and said, “make sure you write this down”, and once they had finished ‘Everything’s Happening’, I did, and here it is, though I must admit our version sounds more like the Sex Pistols than the Doors.”

See all the links to listen to Landslide (Everything’s Happening), below.

https://linktr.ee/omftgsp

Jim’s In Town, classic One Million Fuzztone Guitars from 1982

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Originally written for Skin Patrol and recorded by early One Million Fuzztone Guitars in 1982 (once Chris had joined as it needed a keyboard). The follow up to ‘Rock Section’. A celebration of the return of Jim Morrison, who had not actually died, but had faked his own death and now lived a Howard Hughes stye life in the wealthy part of Nottingham. Every day we would see him make the journey from The Park to Rock City and back, some days he would be ‘cleaned up’ but would soon revert to his ‘gentleman of the road’ look. It was rumored that he (Boris) was very wealthy and that this was all a pretense as a barrier to anyone finding out who he really was (see a reference in Julian Cope’s ‘One Three One’). Another Fuzztone’s classic from the ‘Rise and Fall of the Sound of Music’ sessions. Strangely missing from the Cherry Red Master tape? Here is the remastered version with a suitably 80’s cover with a photograph taken at the session.

“That’s mad – the playful jingle, the distorted vocals and the violent cymbal crashes – but I like it!” AQ

Girl (Back of ’69)

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Remastered from the original tape, one of a few different 12-String demo versions of Back of ’69 for One Million Fuzztone Guitars which was eventually re-recorded and appeared on the ‘Everything’s Happening’ album.

Now available on all streaming services.

Fur Coat River Woman

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A previously unreleased 1984 One Million Fuzztone Guitars / Skin Patrol track ‘Fur Coat River Woman’, it’s amazing the people you encounter working in a nightclub cloakroom.

“The ghostly vocals in the second half of the song remind me of the way they were used in Smiths songs ca Strangeways. They added a very mysterious edge to their songs.” AQ

Baby You Know

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Baby You Know, another track from the 1984 sessions remastered. Early demos plus lost tracks from 1984 for One Million Fuzztone Guitars some of which ended up becoming the templates for the “Everything’s Happening” studio sessions.

“A short, pretty tune in the Barrett / Cope tradition!” AQ

You Touched Me

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The latest OMFTG/SP track, a remastered version of the demo “You Touched Me” a song written walking around Didcot in 1984 after watching a documentary on Malcom X.

“Remastered demo for an old familiar Fuzztones classic! Interesting early version!” AQ

Release date: 28-Jun-2022
Label: One Million Fuzztone Guitars & Skin Patrol
ISRC#: TCAGH2231493
UPC: 859763347002
Primary Genre: Pop
Secondary Genre: Alternative
Language: English