Blast the Human Flower
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Blast the Human Flower is an album by British experimental musician Danielle Dax
Danielle Dax
Danielle Dax is an experimental musician and producer most active from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s. She was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.- Biography :...

. It was her first album recorded while signed to Sire Records
Sire Records
Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...

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All words were written by Dax, and the music was written by Dax and David Knight
David Knight (musician)
David Lloyd Knight is an American singer-songwriter, composer and music producer from San Jose, California. His music is a fusion of acoustic and electronic elements, blending self-produced live and sampled music with multiple instruments...

 except for "Daisy" and "16 Candles", for which the music was written by Dax alone, and "Tomorrow Never Knows
Tomorrow Never Knows
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is the final track of The Beatles' 1966 studio album Revolver but the first to be recorded. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by John Lennon...

", a cover of the Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

/McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

 song.

All tracks were produced by Stephen Street
Stephen Street
Stephen Street is an English music producer best known for his work with The Smiths in the 1980s, as well as Blur and The Cranberries in the 1990s. Street also collaborated with Morrissey on some of his most popular work after The Smiths broke up, playing instruments and co-writing songs...

 except "Bayou" and "Daisy", which were produced by Street and Dax.

Dax provided vocals and played keyboards and guitar. Other musicians on the record are David Knight
David Knight (musician)
David Lloyd Knight is an American singer-songwriter, composer and music producer from San Jose, California. His music is a fusion of acoustic and electronic elements, blending self-produced live and sampled music with multiple instruments...

, who played keyboards, guitar and bass, Stephen Street, also on keyboards, guitar and bass and Peter Farrugia on guitar and bass. David Cross
David Cross (musician)
David Cross is an electric violinist born in Turnchapel near Plymouth, England, best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson during the 1970s...

 and Anna Palm both played violin.

The cover artwork is by Stylorouge
Stylorouge
Stylorouge is a graphic design studio currently based in Shoreditch, London. Formed by creative director Rob O'Connor in 1981, it is notable for creating record sleeve designs for bands such as Blur, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Stereophonics, Killing Joke, Sandie Shaw, Adam Ant, Catatonia, Jesus...

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Track listing

  1. "The ID Parade" (3:51)
  2. "Tomorrow Never Knows" (5:16) - also on Tomorrow Never Knows EP, along with other versions of the track
  3. "Big Blue '82'" (4:17)
  4. "Bayou" (4:09)
  5. "King Crack" (2:10) - also on Tomorrow Never Knows EP
  6. "Daisy" (3:55)
  7. "Dead Man's Chill" (4:42)
  8. "The Living And Their Stillborn" (5:11)
  9. "Jehovah's Precious Stone" (5:08)
  10. "16 Candles" (5:36)

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