They Suffocate at Night

"They Suffocate at Night"
Single by Pulp
from the album Freaks
B-side"Tunnel"
Released5 January 1987
RecordedInput Studios, Sheffield
June 1986
GenreAlternative rock
Length4:00 (Edited)
6:17 (Uncut)
LabelFire
Songwriter(s)Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Peter Mansell, Magnus Doyle
Producer(s)Pulp, Jonathan Kirk
Pulp singles chronology
"Dogs Are Everywhere"
(1986) 		"They Suffocate at Night"
(1987) 		"Master of the Universe"
(1987)

"They Suffocate at Night" is the first single from the album Freaks by British band Pulp, released in 1987.[1][2] The song and its B-side "Tunnel" were later included on the compilation album Masters of the Universe.[3][2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pulp.

7" vinyl
  1. "They Suffocate at Night" (edited version) – 4:00
  2. "Tunnel" (cut-up version) – 4:30
12" vinyl
  1. "They Suffocate at Night" (uncut version) – 6:17
  2. "Tunnel" (full-length version) – 8:13

Video

Singer Jarvis Cocker recalled of the video: "It was made by someone who claimed to have done the lighting on Chariots of Fire, which impressed us a great deal at the time... we could only afford one roll of film, so he had to keep winding the film backwards and forwards for different bits of the song. I converted an inspection pit, in an abandoned warehouse across the road from the factory where I was living, into a sunken bedroom... For some reason, there was a horse skeleton in the building so that ended up in the film too."[4]

References

  1. ^ Aston, Martin (1996). Pulp. London: Pan Books. pp. 67, 71–72. ISBN 0-330-34791-8.
  2. ^ a b Strong, Martin C. (1998). The Great Rock Discography. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 663. ISBN 0-86241-827-5.
  3. ^ Aston 1996, p. 207.
  4. ^ Aston 1996, p. 67.