Code (album)

Code
Studio album by Cabaret Voltaire
Released 1987
Recorded Recorded at Western Works
Genre Synthpop
House
Alternative dance
Label EMI
Producer Cabaret Voltaire and Adrian Sherwood
Cabaret Voltaire chronology
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
(1985)		 Code
(1987)		 Groovy, Laidback and Nasty
(1990)

Code is an album by British electronic band Cabaret Voltaire. The track "Don't Argue" was released as a single, as was "Here To Go".

The lyrics (and title) of "Don't Argue" incorporate verbatim a number of sentences from the narration of the 1945 short film Your Job in Germany, directed by Frank Capra (these sentences are not sampled, but rather respoken by a distorted deep bass male voice). The film was aimed at American soldiers occupying Germany and strongly warned against trusting or fraternizing with German citizens.[1]

Track listing

  1. "Don't Argue" – 4:24
  2. "Sex, Money, Freaks" – 4:56
  3. "Thank You America" – 5:20
  4. "Here To Go" – 5:08
  5. "Trouble (Won't Stop)" – 5:05
  6. "White Car" – 2:43
  7. "No One Here" – 4:57
  8. "Life Slips By" – 3:23
  9. "Code" – 4:20

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Hollings, Ken (January 2002). "Cabaret Voltaire". The Wire (215). http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/212/print. "The haunted urban soul of Cabaret Voltaire's "Don't Argue", the opening track on the 1987 Code album (EMI), suddenly seemed out of place. Using stentorian words of advice lifted from a 1945 US army training film, Your Job In Germany, designed to teach GIs how to behave in occupied territory, "Don't Argue" ran counter to the prevailing mood of loved-up euphoria. "You will not be friendly," commanded this new voice of negative authority. "You will be aloof... watchful... suspicious." Blissed out and ready to hug anything in sight, the Stepford Ravers would have a hard time getting their heads around a message like that." 
Studio albums
Singles and EPs
Extended Play • Nag Nag Nag • Silent Command • Three Mantras • Seconds Too Late • 3 Crépuscule Tracks • Eddie's Out • Yashar • Fools Game (Sluggin' fer Jesus Part 3) • Crackdown • Just Fascination • The Dream Ticket • Sensoria • James Brown • Drinking Gasoline • I Want You • Shakedown • The Drain Train • Don't Argue • Here To Go • Hypnotised • Keep On • Easy Life • Colours • What Is Real • Percussion Force • I Want You/Kino '92 • Nag Nag Nag (2002 re-release)
Other albums
1974-1976 • Live at the Y.M.C.A. • Live at the Lyceum • Hai! (Live in Japan) • Johnny YesNo: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture • Golden Moments of Cabaret Voltaire • Eight Crépuscule Tracks • Listen Up With Cabaret Voltaire • The Living Legends • Technology: Western Re-Works 1992 • Radiation (BBC Recordings '84/'86) • Remixed • The Original Sound of Sheffield '83/'87 • Conform to Deform '82/'90 • The Original Sound of Sheffield '78/'82 • Live at the Hacienda '83/'86 • Methodology '74/'78: The Attic Tapes • Archive (Live 1982-1986)
Appearances
Videos
Doublevision Presents: Cabaret Voltaire • Gasoline in Your Eye • Live at the Hacienda '83/'86