They Suffocate at Night
| "They Suffocate at Night" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by Pulp | ||||
| from the album Freaks | ||||
| B-side | "Tunnel" | |||
| Released | 5 January 1987 | |||
| Recorded | Input Studios, Sheffield June 1986 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 4:00 (Edited) 6:17 (Uncut) | |||
| Label | Fire | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Peter Mansell, Magnus Doyle | |||
| Producer(s) | Pulp, Jonathan Kirk | |||
| Pulp singles chronology | ||||
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"They Suffocate at Night" is the first single from the album Freaks by British band Pulp, released in 1987.[1][2] The song and its B-side "Tunnel" were later included on the compilation album Masters of the Universe.[3][2]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Pulp.
- 7" vinyl
- "They Suffocate at Night" (edited version) – 4:00
- "Tunnel" (cut-up version) – 4:30
- 12" vinyl
- "They Suffocate at Night" (uncut version) – 6:17
- "Tunnel" (full-length version) – 8:13
Video
Singer Jarvis Cocker recalled of the video: "It was made by someone who claimed to have done the lighting on Chariots of Fire, which impressed us a great deal at the time... we could only afford one roll of film, so he had to keep winding the film backwards and forwards for different bits of the song. I converted an inspection pit, in an abandoned warehouse across the road from the factory where I was living, into a sunken bedroom... For some reason, there was a horse skeleton in the building so that ended up in the film too."[4]
References
- ^ Aston, Martin (1996). Pulp. London: Pan Books. pp. 67, 71–72. ISBN 0-330-34791-8.
- ^ a b Strong, Martin C. (1998). The Great Rock Discography. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 663. ISBN 0-86241-827-5.
- ^ Aston 1996, p. 207.
- ^ Aston 1996, p. 67.