Danger Came Smiling was the final LP released by Manchester post-punk group Ludus. A gramophone Post-punk was a popular musical movement in the mid to late 1970s following on the heels of the initial Punk rock explosion of the early 1970s Ludus was a British Post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester by guitarist Arthur Kadmon, drummer Philip Toby Tolman, bassist It was first issued by New Hormones in September 1982.
The album stands apart in the band's discography, being a lot more experimental, improvisational and intentionally less accessible than their other work. It consists of eighteen mostly short tracks. Instead of conventional lyrics, singer Linder Sterling provides a selection of cries, yells, laughter and spoken interludes (including diary records of Reichian therapy), and one very short track sung a capella. Linder Sterling is a visual artist performance artist and musician from Manchester, England who also uses the single name "Linder" Wilhelm Reich ( March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. The music seems to be deliberately kicking against the slick pop that dominated charts at the time. The LP has been described by guitarist Ian Devine as a therapeutic exercise, and by Linder as a "personal exorcism".
Track listing
- Foaming at the Bit
- Howling Comique
- You Open My Legs Like a Book
- Flogging Cully
- Mememoremee
- Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
- I Stabbed at the Sheep
- Mistresspiece
- Bloody Chamber
- Would You Rather Dancing Be?
- Wonder-Wounded
- Savasana
- Bitch Party
- Modju
- Palace of Thieves
- Redress
- Crinkum-Crankum
- Centuries
Currently, Danger Came Smiling is available on CD as a double-issue with the Ludus' 1981 EP Pickpocket. An extended play ( EP) is a Vinyl record, CD, or Music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify Pickpocket was a six-track cassette tape by Manchester post-punk band Ludus, released by New Hormones in 1981. The compilation, Pickpocket/Danger Came Smiling, is available from the label Les Temps Modernes.
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