Prawns (album)
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'Prawns' is the twenty-fifth solo album recorded by B.R. Wallers
Ben Wallers
Benedict Roger Wallers is the frontman, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the band Country Teasers. His lyrics often deal with taboo subjects such as racism, sexism and xenophobia from first-person standpoints...

 under the name The Rebel, the third to be released widely. It is the album version of "Unfired Covenish Den. New Fresh Concepts in Germ Enticement". Another version of "Hitlers & Churchills" would later appear on the Country Teasers
Country Teasers
Country Teasers is a Scottish art punk band formed in 1993.Early Country Teasers albums were characterised by illiterate, scathingly satirical lyrics and discordant, repetitive sound – like William S...

 album The Empire Strikes Back
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-Side one:#"Spiderman in the Flesh" – 4:09#"Points of View" – 5:06#"Hitlers & Churchills" – 3:09#"Mos E17ley" – 4:43#"The Ship" – 4:15#"Raglan Top of Lonsdale Grey" – 5:26-Side two:#"Good Looking Boys or Women" – 3:23...

. The bassist on that album, Sophie Politowicz, contributes both vocals and lyrics to this album, a rare feature indeed.

The song "Liebeskrankenheit 2 'Pferrd'" contains a musical paraphrase of Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...

's song, "Ruination Day Part II".

The vinyl release was manufactured and distributed by Junior Aspirin Records
Junior Aspirin Records
Junior Aspirin Records is a not for profit, artist-run independent record label founded in 2002 and located in London , England. It has released music by a number of artists in limited editions on divergent formats...

 http://www.junioraspirin.com/releases.html

The CD sleeve is missing the sixteenth (of seventeen) track, "Liebeskrankenheit 3".

Side one

  1. "Chinese Calor" – 1:48
  2. "Hitlers & Churchills" – 4:41
  3. "What About Us?" (Leiber and Stoller) – 3:32
  4. "Good Samaritan" (Killing Joke
    Killing Joke
    Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979.Related news articles: Founding members Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker have been the only constant members.A key influence on industrial rock,...

    ) – 4:00
  5. "Ham House Of Horror Pts 1-3" – 5:57
    • (i) Elizabeth Marshall
    • (ii) Imprisoned In Ham
    • {iii) Will Never Leave (Wallers/Politowicz)
  6. "God's Chosen Fish, The Skate" – 1:51
  7. "The Old Revolution V.2" (Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

    ) – 1:45

Side two

  1. "Germany & France" – 3:45
  2. "Pest Wood" – 5:30
  3. "Heil Hilter" – 1:10
  4. "Liebfraumilch 2" – 0:30
  5. "2 Carol" – 2:41
  6. "Your English" – 3:46
  7. "S.O.S. Part 3" – 1:23
  8. "Liebeskrankenheit 2 'Pferrd'" (Wallers/Gillian Welch
    Gillian Welch
    Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...

    ) – 2:16
  9. "Liebeskrankenheit 3" – 0:49
  10. "Liebeskrankenheit 4 'Oompah'" – 2:46
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