Blubberknife (also known as Many a Wonderful Picnic Has Been Ruined by Blubberknife) is the third studio album released by the Australianexperimental group Severed Heads, originally as a C90 cassette tape. The first approximately 200 copies were packaged inside cassette cases that were spray-painted silver, stuffed with loose cassette tape and had parts from the insides of television sets glued to the front of the case. Five copies were specially packaged inside fully operational calculators.[1] It's the first album by the group to feature contributions by Stephen Jones, and it is also the first recording by the group to catch the attention of UK label Ink Records, who helped release Since the Accident a year later[2] and reissued Blubberknife in a standard cassette case with new artwork in 1984. As with most of their discography, Blubberknife has been reissued several times.
""Malt Duck" Stream-of-Conscieusness (sic) Mix: Malt Duck/Never Fall in Love/Nazi Beach Party [Live at ICE, 17.9.80]"
7.
"Relic of the Empire #2"
8.
"Tiny Fingers"
9.
"Sydney Quads + The Megascope Space Probe"
10.
"Play It Again"
11.
"Carry My Books"
12.
"Nightsong [Live at ICE, 3.1.81]"
13.
"Car Advertisement"
Tape One, Side Two
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Introduction" (Uncredited in the packaging)
2.
"Adolf a Carrot?"
3.
"Rocket Summer [Live at Stranded, 4.1982]"
4.
"Deano's Couch"
Tape Two, Side One
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Power Circles"
2.
"Blame"
3.
"Alaskan Polar Bear Heater"
4.
"Umbrella"
5.
"Lower Than the Grave"
6.
"J. Edgar Hoover [Live at Killayoni, 3.82]"
7.
"CMID [Live at Killayoni, 3.82]"
8.
"Exiles Excerpt [Live at Exiles, 7.8.1981]"
Tape Two, Side Two
No.
Title
Length
1.
"A Day in the Country"
2.
"Elephant dB [Live at Stranded, 9.7.1982]"
3.
"The Monkey is Safe"
4.
"Golden Boy [Live at Trade Union Club, 24.4.1983]"
5.
"Desert Song"
6.
"? [AKA This Song Does Not Exist]"
7.
"Dance"
8.
"Ad Infinitum"
This reissue incorporated almost all of the contents of the 1985 2LP release Clifford Darling Please Don't Live in the Past. Double CD-R/Bandcamp download reissue (SevCom (Australia)--2002)
Disc 1
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Introduction"
0:59
2.
"Adolph a Karrot?"
3:41
3.
"Rocket Summer (A)"
1:18
4.
"Rocket Summer (B)"
3:00
5.
"Rocket Summer (C)"
3:32
6.
"Rocket Summer (D)"
3:03
7.
"Rocket Summer (E)"
3:56
8.
"Rocket Summer (F)"
2:16
9.
"Rocket Summer (G)"
4:33
10.
"Rocket Summer (H)"
3:36
11.
"Rocket Summer (I)"
3:26
12.
"Rocket Summer (J)"
5:15
13.
"Deano's Couch"
2:33
14.
"An American in Paris"
4:08
15.
"Tarzan's Grip"
3:34
16.
"Umbrella"
4:24
17.
"Lower Than the Grave"
8:05
18.
"Ad Infinitum"
7:05
Total length:
68:23
3-12 are the full live performance at the Stranded Club, divided into tracks based on the main tape loop used in that part. The Bandcamp version restored these to one 33:54 track, and also combined 14 and 15 into one track (7:42).
