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Sator Slammer! Format: LP/CD Release date: March 1st 1988 No.: RA 033	(click for bigger image)			Line-Up: Michael Olsson -drums & tambourine Hans Gäfvert -keyboards, samples, harmonica & vocals Chips Kiesbye -guitars, violin, tapes & lead vocals Kent Norberg -bass, heartbeats & lead vocals Back
Re-release with bonus tracks Format: CD Release Date: 1992 No.: 9031-76522-2, France WE 833	French version with different cover. Format: LP Release Date: 1988 Same tracks as original

Songs:

           Original version
Side A: What You Are is What You Get
            Scales to Skin
            Wasting Time
            Gamma Gamma Hey!
            23 B.C.
Side B: Pigvalley Beach
            Bughouse Baby
            Snake Pit Rebel
            It's So Cold Without a Gun
            What Fucking Vibrations?              Reissue
What You Are is What You Get
Scales to Skin
Wasting Time
Gamma Gamma Hey!
23 B.C.
Pigvalley Beach
Bughouse Baby
Snake Pit Rebel
It's So Cold Without a Gun
What Fucking Vibrations?
Bonus tracks:
Crusade (Gonna Start a Fire)
Oh Mama
Pigvalley Beach (remix)

All songs written by Sator except "Oh Mama" written by Norell/Oson

Recorded at Studio Daylight, Bruxelles, Belgium and at Music-A-Matic Studio, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Belgium recordings produced, engineered & mixed by Gilles Martin, assisted by Michael Ilbert.
Swedish recordings produced & engineered by Ilbert assisted by Chips K., mixed by Ilbert and Chips K.

Recorded between July 1987 and January 1988.

Bonus tracks:
"Crusade (Gonna Start a Fire)" -Recorded at Music-A-Matic studio, Gothenburg, Sweden September 14 - October 22 1986, Produced by Henryk Lipp & Sator Codex, Engineered by Michael Ilbert & Henryk Lipp.
"Oh Mama" & "Pigvalley Beach (remix)" -Recorded & produced by Michael Ilbert and Chips K. at Music-A-Matic & Gothenburg Sound Studios, between December 1987 and June 1988. Remix by the Legendary Bongo Twins.

Arrangements by Fred J. Lutmaker
Programming, additional keyboards and drums by Michael Ilbert
Coverart by Red & Black
Innersleeve photos by Annika S.

Thanks to Minimal Compact, Truly and all others at Cramed Disc, Afflux, Henryk Lipp, EA, T. Samuelsson, S-E Edvardsson, Andy Martin, Sam & Jimmy, and all others who think they deserve it.

Original:
Radium 226.05 Records
Mile
Tryck STHLM
Etching on spin-off side A: GSHH
side B: GOT THE MESSAGE?

French version:
Closer Records
Made in France

Reissue:
WEA
Licensed by Metronome Records
Made in Germany

Comment:
Sator's first album and the first release with the new name.
A track called "Angel Angel" was recorded during these sessions but remains unreleased to this day.
An earlier recording of "Scales to Skin" was released as a Sator Codex 7" in 1986 with "Crusade (Gonna Start a Fire)" on the b-side.
"Oh Mama" and the remix of "Pigvalley Beach" was released as a 7" in July 1988.
"Oh Mama" can also be found on the Absolut Svensk Musik -89 album.
"Wasting Time" is also available on the In Gold We Trust compilation.
A live version of "Gamma Gamma Hey!" is on the "I'll Wait " CD-Maxi and live versions of "Bughouse Baby" and "Pigvalley Beach" are on the "I Wanna Go Home" CD-Maxi.
A remix of "What You are is What You Get" can be found on the Sound Affects #3 EP as well as on a Danish Bootleg cassette.
"Crusade" was covered by The Mobile Mob Freakshow, "Gamma Gamma Hey!" by Zoobox, "It's So Cold Without a Gun" by Vadå & "Pigvalley Beach" by White Flag (with the Swinging Orchestral Circus) on the "Guldskivan -Svenska Band Hyllar Sator & Sator Codex" tribute CD.

Lyrics:

What You Are is What You Get

No one's at your service,
you've got to help yourself
Trip it up and keep 'em down,
we all got the same chance
The system of corruption
will get it your way
No problem with the money,
when you're not the one who pays

What you are is what you get
and you got what you deserve
What the hell did you expect?
What you are is what you get

We're all born equal,
according to the rich
Dreams are not enough,
if you're going for the top

What you are is what you get
and you got what you deserve
What the hell did you expect?
What you are is what you get

Doubt is the brother of shame
Yeah! I did eat some of that pig,
Go ahead!
Smash and grab

(Payday my favourite day of the month.
I'm a big man on payday)

Pull yourself together
Crawl back to the top
They're gonna kick you down again
They're never gonna stop

What you are is what you get
and you got what you deserve
What the hell did you expect?
What you are is what you get
What you are is what you get
and you got what you deserve
What the hell did you expect?
What you are is what you get

Scales to Skin

You're so warm and I'm so cold
But heart to heart we're melting stone
They say our love is taboo
But we make love like flowers do
I don't mind if you're red or blue
I'm a reptile man. I'm not like you

Heart to heart
Scales to skin
Heart to heart
Scales to skin...my skin...AAH!

Warm affections in cold wars
Living on each sides of the wall
The say our love will never last
Passion is fuel, burning fast

Heart to heart
Scales to skin
Heart to heart
Scales to skin...my skin...AAH!

Under the spell of eagerness
Between the sands of east and west
The torch of malice will it ever go out
We're the last of lovers in a world going down
I'm the candles on your cake
And if you're Eve then I'm the snake

Heart to heart
Scales to skin
Heart to heart
Scales to skin...my skin...AAH!

Wasting Time

I saw you from behind
Took control over your mind
We travelled all around
To the other side of town
There you bought a piece of soap
and a picture of the pope
I think we had a lot of fun
seen here from behind

I've been moving round in circles
Like a bird with just one wing

I'm wasting time,
wasting time,
wasting time,
wasting time
Yeah!

I followed you for hours,
wasted all my time
Counted all your footsteps
but I don't remember why
I'm a fairminded soul,
so tired of being alone
How I wish I was that soup
daily used by you

I've been moving round in circles
Like a bird with just one wing

I'm wasting time,
wasting time,
wasting time,
wasting time...

Gamma Gamma Hey!

We're in a movie and it's really bad
Inside the worst dream, I've ever had
Back to the acting here we go again

Is this comedy or tragedy?
Is it fiction or reality?
Back to the nightmare here we go again

This is a drive-in with a movie from hell
And if I ever get my hands on a fifty ton tank
OOOH! I'd change the world

I see top men of the industry
Glorifying nuclear energy
Gamma Gamma here we go again

This is a drive-in with a movie from hell
And if I ever get my hands on a fifty ton tank
OOOH! I'd change the world

I've been acting in this show too long
Now it's time to tell 'em right from wrong
So don't you tell me I've got nothing to do

This is a drive-in with a movie from hell
And if I ever get my hands on a fifty ton tank,
this is a drive-in with a movie from hell
And if I ever get my hands on a fifty ton tank
OOOH! I'd change the world

23 B.C.

If I was born 2000 years ago,
then I would have a photograph of Jesus
an maybe his autograph too!
Then I would be rich and famous
and I could eat chocolate and mayonnaise all the time!

Pigvalley Beach

I'm going to the sun, gonna have a lot of fun,
got some money in my pocket and some music on the radio
Get ready to go!
I press the pedal to the metal I'm welded to the wheel,
do you wanna come along baby?
I've got a week to kill
down at Pigvalley Beach
That's where I get my thrills
and I get them cheap,

Down on the Beach
Wild on the beach

There's a party in the valley, lot's of beer and rock'n roll
All the surfers gonna be there and some honeys will be coming along
Let's get real gone!
We're gonna have a groovy time in the broiling summer sun
It's gonna be the best party that you've ever heard about,
we're gonna scream and shout
Go out of reach
We're gonna do it loud

Down on the beach
Wild on the beach
Sick city here I come

There was a party in the valley, lot's of beer and rock'n roll
I had some money in my pocket and some music on the radio
And I got real gone
I've been drinking for a week and I haven't been to sleep,
my feet no longer seem to be connected to my head at all
My mind's a black hole
What about the big party?
Did it happen at all?

Down on the beach
Wild on the beach
Down on the beach
Sick city here I come!

Bughouse Baby

I wake up, I get up, I get the feeling that I'm all alone at sea
In a storm, swimming like a stone and I call for you
I need something to ease my mind
Be mine, just mine, stay until the end of time

Bughouse baby
I wanna be drugged by you, just you, and nobody else but you

The way you move, is making my mind confused
do what you like I'd love to be your guniea-pig
Put a wire to my head, connect me to the powerplant
Fill me up, give me pain, gimme gimme shock treatment again

Bughouse baby
I wanna be drugged by you, just you and nobody else but you

She's my baby and I love her
I will never have another
She electrifies my heart

I'm up, I'm down, I'm standing with my back to the wall
Repent, reform give me anything at all
If I can't be with you, pills will get me through
I'll stay 'til the day, health do us apart

Bughouse baby
I wanna be drugged by you
Just you and nobody else but you
Bughouse baby
I wanna be drugged by you
Just you and nobody else but you

Snakepit Rebel

You say I'm going down, but it sure looks like up to me
You say I'm getting sloppy. But I tell you wait and see
You say I'm running out of limits and I'm slowing down too fast
But I get enough adrenalin to make you look like you're dead
Every morning when I rise, you tell me what to do
You sold my favourite records and you burned my favourite clothes
My guitar is in the pawnshop , because it didn't get me far
It didn't get me money and it didn't make me a star

I'm a snakepit rebel,
don't you love me like that?
Don't you feel happy
when I'm coming you're way?

Today I woke up screaming and it was because of you
But I can tell you baby, I've got better things to do
You hate the way I'm living. You say it all the time
But maybe my appearance is a blessing in disguise

I'm a snakepit rebel,
don't you love me like that?
Don't you feel happy
when I'm coming you're way?
I'm a snakepit rebel,
don't you love me like that?
Don't you feel happy
when I'm coming you're way?

OOH baby come on don't you love me baby
I'm a snakepit rebel,
don't you love me like that?
Don't you feel happy
when I'm coming you're way?
I'm a snakepit rebel,
don't you love me like that?
Don't you feel happy
when I'm coming you're way...?

It's So Cold Without a Gun

Poor old Mr. Willard got shot in the head
He didn't have the sense to stay home in bed
And later Mrs. Willard got a dagger in her back
She went shopping and she never came back

To go out there all alone, you have to be brave these days

The world is going crazy, the city's going wild
Better think about yourself if you wanna survive
Back in the good old days, when people were proud
God, guns and guts kept us alive

To go out there all alone, you have to be brave these days

I need it
And I mean I can feel it, it's so cold
I can feel it, and I mean it, it's so cold without a gun...Aha!

If I had a weapon just like in my dreams
Then I would be out there cleaning up the streets
I would be a hero, a weelknown face,
getting rid of lowlife for inner peace and mental health

Didn't I tell you, you have to be brave these days

I need it and I mean it,
I can feel it's so cold
I can feel it and I mean it
It's so cold without a gun...Aha!

I'm not a hippie
I wanna be safe
Love and understanding is out of date
I got myself a weapon
I got myself a gun
It keeps my mind in shape and it gives me lots of fun

Didn't I tell you, you have to be brave these days

I need it and I mean it
I can feel it's so cold
I can feel it and I mean it, it's so cold without a gun
I need it and I mean it, it's so cold without a gun
I need it and I mean it
I can feel it's so cold
I can feel it and I mean it
It's so cold without a gun...Aha!

What Fucking Vibrations
Instrumental

Crusade (Gonna Start A Fire)
Bonus track

A fallen angel with a loaded gun
Crusader from vengeance found
A king a son of a king
A flame a son of a flame

My only wish my one desire
Is to see my name in fire
I know my had forsake of a wish
A life of what's been fallen to bits

You will remember my name
I'm gonna start a fire
You will remember my face
I'm gonna start a fire

Tomorrow will be yesterday
And you're the one who has to pay
You did some things you will regret
I will forgive but not forget

I'm gonna get you for that
I'm gonna start a fire
You will remember my name
I'm gonna start a fire

The taste of shame is bitter, sour
And (coalition?) make a fool out of me no more
Oh I really get my kicks
On route 666

You will remember my name
I'm gonna start a fire
I'm gonna get you for this
I'm gonna start a fire

You will remember my face
I'm gonna start a fire
I'm gonna get you for this
I'm gonna start a fire

Oh Mama
Bonus track

Chorus:
Oh mama can't you tell
Oh mama can't you tell
If you want my love will you ring my bell

Oh mama can't you tell
Oh mama can't you tell
If you want my love will you ring my bell

I know it's written in my face
It's time for us to find a secret place
I've got things to tell
If you ring my bell

Forget your sorrows and lonely nights
What time tomorrow will be alright?
I hope you feel the same
I wanna call your name

Chorus

? I'm longing (looking?) for
I kiss (kick?) your face and close the door
I've got things to tell
If you ring my bell

Forget your sorrows and lonely nights
What time tomorrow will be alright?
I hope you feel the same
I wanna call your name

Chorus x6

If you want my love, want my love
Ring my bell

Ring my bell x6