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    Triple CD Limited Edition of our first album Northern Rock. This is the very last one and we won't be making any more. CD3 is a data CD which can only be played on a PC.

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    CD1 - album

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    1-16. Original demos for all 15 album tracks & Rapacity, plus:
    17. Turn Your Nose Up alternate version
    18. The Bottom Line alternate version
    19. Worthless alternate version
    20 .Mr Bag

    CD3 - extras / alternates
    1. Introduction by Tony Robinson
    2. Turn Your Nose Up
    3. Party Hard Super Saxed
    4. Party Hard Space Rave
    5. Sculpted To Entice riff discussion
    6. Blue Space loom mix
    7. Mr. Nobody acoustic
    8. The Bottom Line Director's Cut (continues after Archie gets kicked out of the studio.)
    9. Bite The Hand alternate version
    10. The Genesis of Bite The Hand - the actual moment this song took shape, recorded for posterity.
    11. Bite The Hand - where did the intro come from?
    12. Developing The Wasting
    13. The Wasting discussion
    14. Broke and Broken experiment
    15. A Loan Tonight jam
    16. A Loan Tonight chat
    17. Looking Through Different Eyes acoustic
    18. Rapacity development
    19. Rapacity discussion
    20. Slash

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lyrics

The glove it holds your grain, all
Drugged to make you safe, in
The vicious circle, Queen
Anaesthetises workers
In a financial regime, one
Eye on your pension scheme, through
Hand-outs you’re appeased, but
A screaming conscience grieves

SO I URGE YOU ALL, TO BITE THE HAND
STICK TWO UP AT THE MONEY MAN
BITE THE HAND, BITE THE HAND
BITE THE HAND… THAT FEEDS

An acid is contained, will
Placidly refrains, from
Joining power in a sentence
Purgatory is your penance
If you stay inert, no
Wrath will be incurred
Silence buys a month’s existence
Your pay cheque is assured

SO I URGE YOU ALL TO BITE THE HAND
STICK TWO UP AT THE MONEY MAN
BITE THE HAND, BITE THE HAND
BITE THE HAND… THAT FEEDS

They can treat you like shit and you won’t quit because you need
A comfort blanket to protect you from the streets
They can treat you like shit and you won’t quit because you need
A comfort blanket to protect you, hey it’s kept you from the streets

SO I URGE YOU ALL TO BITE THE HAND
STICK TWO UP AT THE MONEY MAN
BITE THE HAND, BITE THE HAND
BITE THE HAND… THAT FEEDS

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from Northern Rock (Album - 2014), released February 15, 2014

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The Red Pills took their name from the 1999 movie 'The Matrix.' In one scene, Keanu Reeves' character 'Neo' is presented with a choice of pills to ingest; a red pill or a blue pill. Each is a metaphor - taking the blue pill will allow Neo to continue to live a cosy, comfortable lie. Taking the red pill will allow him to wake up to the truth. ... more

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