Singles & EPs

all songs written by Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet except where noted.

SIDE ONE:

• "Customized" [1st version]
• "Eggs Rancheros"

• "Exit From Vince Lombardi High School" [1st version]
• "Is Parent's Burning?"

• The first Shadowy Men recording, recorded shortly after the band started
• Tad Winklarz (from Chalk Circle) plays sax on "Customized"
• "Eggs Rancheros" is one of two titles for the same song. Atomic 7 titled it "The Whirly Girly Revue" on their album ... Something For The Girl With Everything. Episode 6 of Season 1 of The Kids In The Hall has a little of this song near the end of the episode.

SIDE ONE:

• "Our Weapons Are Useless"

• "Bennett Cerf" [1st version]
• "Having An Average Weekend" [1st version]

• There's quite a few slightly different covers for Love Without Words, one black and white, and a number of different versions with the words shaded. Scans are on the Love Without Words cover page.

SIDE ONE:

• "Theme From T.V."
• "Zombie Compromise"

• "Customized" [2nd version]
• "Shake Some Evil"
• "We Are The Weird" [recorded backwards]

• There's at least four slightly different covers for Wow Flutter Hiss, one black and white, and two different versions with the logo shaded. In addition, the single came with an iron-on transfer. Scans are on the Wow Flutter Hiss '86 cover page.
• "Customized" is credited on the sleeve as being recorded live, but it sounds like a studio recording to me.
• "We Are The Weird" is the apparent title of the last song, recorded backwards. You can hear the band playing what sounds like a rehearsal, along with someone on sax. Maybe an outtake from the session for the demo tape when Tad Winklarz played on "Customized"?

SIDE ONE:

• "Good Cop Bad Cop" [2nd version]
• "Egypt Texas"

• "Shadowy Countdown"
• "Harlem By The Sea" (Hagen)
• "Malfunction" (The Dundrells)

• Schlagers! is not only a single, but a game. Details are on the Schlagers! game page.
• There are two slightly different covers, one with the mountains white, and one with the mountains tinted blue (as above). Scans are on the Schlagers! cover page.
• "Harlem By The Sea" is the Shadowy Men version of an older jazz standard called "Harlem Nocturne".
• "Malfunction" is the Shadowy Men version of a song by The Dundrells called "Melinda".
• "Schlager" is the German word for "hit" (as in "hit single").
• "Schlagers!" is also the name of a 1970 promotional double album.

SIDE ONE:

• "Woman Shake" [1st version: live]
• "You Spin Me Round '86" [live]

• "Laser Men"
• "Shadowy Countdown" [live]

• Side one was recorded at 46 1/3 RPM. Well, not exactly. According to Don Pyle, "Our friend Carson Foster recorded this on his 4 track cassette. He somehow had the pitch up which made the playback slower. As compensation, we approximated that the speed was 46 1/3. It was just intended to tell people to play it faster!"
• The live tracks were recorded at the Shadowy Men's second birthday party concert, titled "14 In Dog Years".

SIDE ONE:

• "Musical Interlude"
• "Run Chicken Run" (Wray/Cooper)

NOTES:

• Explosion Of Taste was originally released in the rare "popcorn" cover. Details are on the Explosion Of Taste cover page.
• The full caption on side two is "Demonstration Side - For Home Use Only. An edible PROCAN product. For complete nutritional breakdown write Jetpac 334 St. Johns Rd, Toronto - M6S 2K4."
• Inside the inner groove on side one you can see "Instrumental since 1985". On side two, it says "Hey you! This corn's for you!"

SIDE ONE:

• "Reid Does Neil" [medley]

• "Batman" (Hefti)
• "Friendly Town" (Livingston/Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)

• Special appearance on "Batman" by Quentin Crisp.
• "Friendly Town" is the theme from Bonanza with new lyrics.

SIDE ONE:

• "Rover & Rusty"
• "Here Kitty"
• "The Cat Came Back" (traditional)

• "Baby Elephant Walk" (Mancini)
• "That Wuz Ear Me Callin' A Horse" [1st version]

• The cat on the cover is Reid's cat Pud (as in "puddin'").
• There's two different colors of vinyl for this single: red and black.
• The title "That Wuz Ear Me Callin' A Horse" is a joke based on Slade's 1972 live album, Slade Alive!. After Slade plays "Hear Me Calling", you can hear "That was 'Hear Me Calling', of course". But with the band's thick accents, it sounds more like "That Wuz Ear Me Callin' A Horse". The misspelling in the title is also a play on Slade's tradition of misspelling song titles, like "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", "Gudbuy t'Jane", "Cum on Feel the Noize", and a host of others.

SIDE ONE:

• CHANGE OF HEART: "Tired Of Waking Up Tired" (Catto)
• CHANGE OF HEART: "Mythology" (Blurton/Duffy/Maizza/Taylor)

• "Tired Of Waking Up Tired" (Catto)
• "The Alouette, She Was Canada's First Satellite, Way Before The Americans Even"

• Side one was recorded at 33 1/3 RPM, while side two was recorded at 45 RPM. Really.
• There's three different versions of the Tired Of Waking Up Tired packaging, two different color vinyl singles and a cassette. Scans are on the Tired Of Waking Up Tired cover page.

SIDE ONE:

• "You May Now Kiss The Bride" [medley]

• "Theme From Love Story / Bird Dance" [medley]

• Both sides of the single were recorded at 33 1/3 RPM.
• The single is credited to "Chateau Amen" (sound it out).
• The titles are switched on the single (the title of the A-side is listed on the B-side and vice-versa).
• The singles themselves were paid for by Steve Albini who gave them away at the wedding party, held at Lounge Ax. Roughly 300 were made.
• You can read the story behind the single in the article in the fanzine Your Flesh as well.

SIDE ONE:

• "Spy School Graduation Theme"

• "Mecca" (Nader/Gluck)
• "Like You"

• "Memories Of Gay Paree"
• "Plastics For 500, Bob"
• "Having An Average Weekend" [1st version]
• "Vibrolux Deluxe"
• "Having An Average Weekend '78"

• Grant Diamond sent me details about this single. About the last track, he says:

  ... the fifth track is not a live track of "Having an Average Weekend" but rather a studio send-up of the band. The liner states "Not really recorded by us. Also unreleased, this was recorded by that band everbody mixes us up with, Shadowy Men FROM A Shadowy Planet. Not us. Really." It is a 1970's "heavy metal" spoof of themselves.

SIDE ONE:

• "The Jehrney"

• "Song Of The Lobster"

• Pressed on blue vinyl

SIDE ONE:

• "Winterfresh"
• MOTO: "Christmas Is Coming" (Guaraldi)

• "Deck The Halls" (traditional)
• "The Twelve Answering Machine Messages Of Christmas" [medley]

• Special appearance by The Vienna Boys Choir on "Deck The Halls".
• Special guests: MOTO (Masters Of The Obvious)
• Pressed on white vinyl.
• Side one was recorded at 45 RPM, while side two was recorded at 33 1/3 RPM. No, really. Would I kid about that?

• "Having An Average Weekend" [1st version]

• This is a promo CD single tied to the Brain Candy soundtrack.
• This single has the normal version of the song, as opposed to the version on the Brain Candy soundtrack in which applause was dubbed over the beginning of the song.

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