DIRTY

also appears on:

• 100% single
• Dirty deluxe reissue 2CD/4LP
• Corporate Ghost DVD
• Hits Are For Squares
• Battery Park NYC July 4th 2008
• Rarities 1 (live 2002)
• 12/14/92 "LIVE AT BRIXTON ACADEMY 1992"
• 03/05/93 "LIVE AT THE WARFIELD 1993"
• 07/14/93 "BLASTIC SCENE LIVE IN LISBON 1993"
• 07/06/00 "LIVE IN COPENHAGEN 2000"
• 08/05/00 "PERSPECTIVE MUSICALES - LIVE AT CAT'S CRADLE 2000"
• 08/17/02 "LIVE AT CABARET METRO CHICAGO, IL 2002"
• 08/20/04 "LIVE AT THE ORANGE PEEL 2004"

• NME Singles of the Week 1992
• Vox Elite
• Born Into The 90s
• Westwood One In Concert: New Rock #94-16 (live '93)
• Summer Of The 90s

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar/vocals
Kim - bass
Lee - guitar
Steve - drums

Lyrics   status: confirmed

I can never forget you
The way you rock the girls
They rule the world and love you
A blast in the underworld
I stick a knife in my head
Thinkin' about your eyes
But now that you've been shot dead
I got a new surprise
I've been awaitin' for you just to say
The zoftig chick is mine
All I know is you got no money
But that's got nothing to do with a good time

Can you forgive the boy who shot you in the head
Or should you get a gun and go and get revenge
A hundred percent of my love up to you, true star
It's hard to believe you took off
I always thought you'd go far
I've been around the world a million times
And all you men are slime
Gun to my head, goodbye I am dead
Wastewood rockers it's time for crime, hey!

NOTES:

• Written about the shooting death of band friend Joe Cole.
• "100%" was the first single from Dirty. Its video features SY performing at a house party of sorts, interspersed w/ some skateboarding footage.
• Performed on Late Night w/ David Letterman on September 4th, 1992. Paul Shaffer and the house band backed SY on a high-spirited, explosive rendition. Thurston attacked his guitar with a drumstick while Lee went one further and mauled his guitar with a baseball bat. Even Paul joined in, pushing his keyboard off its stand at the end of the song. Not to be outdone, Thurston ends up falling flat on his ass, then hopping away while Letterman comes to greet them.
• Jim O'Rourke played guitar on this song while he was in the band.

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