Rorschach Testing

Personnel:

Adrian Smith: Wasp, Voice

Derek E. Smith: Drums, 808, Percussion

Graham Stronach : Guitar, Radio, Keyboards on Whirlpool

Recorded at Vibrasound, Sheffield - 1988

Engineer:Alan Fisch

Production: Click Click & Fisch

Sleeveart: Mick Lowe & Sue Smith

Possibly the best album from Click Click. Like a soundtrack to a disaffected world, Rorschach Testing is a collection of stories and ideas that blend into a fine set of songs.Awake and Watching is the TV addict at play; 15 Minutes a demand for attention; Playground a confrontation on a dark street and What a World a summing up of all that is wrong on the planet Earth.

The first contributions from guitarist Graham Stronach forming a new angle of attack. Suddenly there is light when all before was darkness and noise.
Superb.

The orchestral sample used in Playground is a cut up of Jerry Goldsmith's music for Alien

The album's title is a tribute to Dec Hickey (the band's manager and owner of Rorschach Testing Records) God bless him. Long may he own the master tapes.

Awake and watching

We can turn the thing over
and the man, he will utter
'Is there anyone following you?'
can I make a suggestion
will you answer the question
what the hell you gonna do?

In his eyes, oblivion
in his arms, another one
is there anyone who understands
Do you breathe the same as me
is there anything you see
that isn't framed by wood and glass.

Select a new channel
depress it and cancel
there's a victim on channel 2
there is a fire on water
and a lamb at the slaughter
and a murder right after the news

In his eyes...

Tune into the horror
this is Dracula's daughter
there is a coffin and crucifix too
and then just after the struggle
with the good and the evil
there's a Weetabix advert to view.

In his eyes...

Perfect Stranger

Marriage is linked with marriage of sin
and many's a perfect stranger
somewhere is found what search will confound
and no one is none at all
after the fire they all ran inside
and tucked up the madman's daughter
'Where once was a head on shoulders, ' he said,
I stands to remain another.
Coming a man in black dressing
gown inside of an open car
he waves to the crowd and smiles aloud
and watches the gunflash fire
someone has found what search will confound
and pressure becomes the brother
while standing away from children at play
in black is the perfect stranger.

Fifteen Minutes

I want to make love to the Mona Lisa
because I know that's what she's smiling for
get into the canvas and really see her
like no one's ever seen before

I want to shake hands with Andy Warhol
with my emotions just the same
watch my image on the film roll
I want my fifteen minutes of fame

I want a house in the Riviera
with lots of servants cleaning round
a swimming pool in central Sahara
then maybe I will lose this frown.

Playground

Oh ho ho
here's that feeling
and that feeling won't go away
here they come
I can see them four or five
and they're out to play
I see them (stay in the light)

oh ho ho
here they come again
and the time is right
now

Spot neck man is amongst the crowd
just like I knew he'd be
he's dressed in black
like a burial man
there's a gap between his teeth
flick knife spring off into the air
magnesium flare from blade
he pass the knife from hand to hand
like a juggling dancing maid
oh ho ho
here they come again
and the time is right
now.

Headfuck

What a way to go
when you want adventure
in a car that's old
on the motorway
if you make it there
and your head's in motion
you can tell yourself
that you never know
where you are with me

When the bedroom's bare
and the sheets are flying
through the hall
and stairs like an open sea
and you see a ship
on the landing carpet
that's about to sink,
well you never know
where you are with me

When your head's on fire
with no explanation
and the drugs don't go
where they oughts to be
when you start to bleed
through the nose and fingers
you'll never know
where you are with me.

Whirlpool

What a day,
it's another whirlpool sinking through
till the day is gone
when I leave my bed to the sound of engines
and the TV's on in another room.

Catch my breath
as I board the van
and I take my seat by the window side
with a cigarette and another coffee
I can shut my eyes
and see the world go by
Whirlpool...

This is some existence
never sure of the place
I'm in bags packed
and I'm up and leaving
match my scowl with anothers grin
Somewhere new, there's no explanation
just a word or two from the big command
and the window's fogged from the condensation
from the air that's hot here inside the van
Whirlpool . . .

The Vacuum Shop (from Behind Dark Glasses)

The smell of burning rubber
brings my eyes to floods of tears
it hangs there by the ceiling
it's been hanging there for years
if someone broke a window
we could breathe some real air
but no one wants the action
that an accident will bare.

Why is it so cold,
why is it so cold
Why is it so cold out here
Has to be the rain
Has to be the wind
Has to be the time of year
Go see
Go see
Go look at me.

What a World

See the fire consume the land
well I asked you here,
yes I asked you here
bodies burning in the sand
and I asked you here
yes I asked you here

What a world
what a world,
where no one has a chance to live
and peace on earth is just a myth
it's just a lie that you never learn
and I asked you here to this rat-hole world

Home is where the heart stops dead
and I asked you here,
yes I asked you here
children cry for their daily bread
and I asked you here,
yes, I asked you here
see them run
see them hide, from acid rain,
official lies amid
movie dreams that fall and die
it's so absurd that you haven't heard
and I asked you here to this rat-hole world.

Cross my heart and hope to die
but I asked you here,
yes I asked you here
will nothing change as time goes by?
well I asked you here,
yes I asked you here

What a world,
what a world
where paper houses tumble down
and concrete towers block the sun
and life is burned by a single word
and I asked you here to this rat-hole world.

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