Drinking Gasoline

Drinking Gasoline is a 1985 EP release (taking the form of two 12" singles) by Cabaret Voltaire, originally released on the Some Bizzare label and distributed through Virgin Records. All four tracks are featured on the band's "Gasoline in Your Eye" videocassette, also issued in 1985. All known copies of the original UK pressing had labels on the wrong discs (ie, side 1 label on side 3, side 2 label on side 4.) It peaked at #71 in the UK.[2]

Drinking Gasoline
EP by
Cabaret Voltaire
ReleasedApril 1985
RecordedDecember 1984 – January 1985
StudioWestern Works, Sheffield
GenreElectronic, experimental, industrial
Length33:04
LabelSome Bizzare; Distributed by Virgin
ProducerCabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire chronology
Micro-Phonies
(1984)		 Drinking Gasoline
(1985)		 The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Reception

John Leland at Spin called it, "living proof that technology is best entrusted to people who don't know how to use it. Sequencers and drum computers set a simple staccato cadence that the duo uses to carry its fragmented messages. Weird noises and voices cut in and out, irritating your peripheral senses while the hyperkinetic beatbox assaults your central nervous system with its idiot pounding."[3]

Track listing

All songs were written by Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder.

Disc one, side one
No.TitleLength
1."Kino"8:28
Disc one, side two
No.TitleLength
1."Sleepwalking"8:27
Disc two, side one
No.TitleLength
1."Big Funk"8:10
Disc two, side two
No.TitleLength
1."Ghostalk"7:59

Personnel
Cabaret Voltaire
Other personnel
  • Mark Tattersall – drums on "Kino" and "Sleepwalking"
  • Paul White – artwork

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Cabaret Voltaire | Artist | Official Charts". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. John Leland (October 1985). "Singles". Spin. No. 6. p. 38.
  1. Liner notes
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