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"Commerciality (Signal Ad)" is a dub experiment by Andy Partridge based on the unreleased track "Refrigeration Blues." It appeared on Andy's 1980 dub LP Take Away / The Lure of Salvage, later on the 1990 collection Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80.

Quotes[]

Andy: “ ‘Commerciality (Signal Ad.)’ was based on an unfinished and unreleased track from White Music called ‘Refrigeration Blues’. The lyrics are a poem called ‘Signal Ad. (Saleable futurity)’.”

Lyrics[]

Firesign, indicate luminous pornography

Heliograph and Morse photography

Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad

Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality


Coherent, match and blazing cuneiform wide open

Sales pitch, high pitch, noise

Brakes too soft to burn, envisage this

Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad

Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality


Package, carton, package and carton, sell and package and carton

Sell and package and carton, sell and package and carton

Sell, package and sell, package

Just revitalize, revitalize, revitalize, what's this now?

Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality


Sell and revitali-, vitalize and home pride

From tractors to tea-bags, from here to eternity, oh God, help me

Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality

Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality

Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad

Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality