Torment and Toreros is the second album to be released by Marc and the Mambas

Marc and the Mambas

Marc and the Mambas was a new wave group, formed by Marc Almond, in 1982 as an off-shoot project from Soft Cell. The band's line-up changed frequently, and included Matt Johnson from The The and Annie Hogan, with whom Almond worked later in his solo career....

, the album reached #28 in the UK album charts in August 1983. It also is the last album to go under the name "Marc and the Mambas". The next album Almond issued was credited to Rauol And The Ruined, the album, Bite Black and Blues is a live album and was initially only available via the Marc Almond fan club.

Disc 1

1. "Intro" (Almond, Sally Mambasa) - 3:17
2. "Boss Cat" (Almond, Anne Stephenson, Ginny Hewes) - 4:17
3. "The Bulls" (Jacques Brel
   Jacques Brel
   Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...
   
   ) - 2:18
4. "Catch a Fallen Star" - 5:12
5. "The Animal In You" (Almond, Mambasa) - 7:19
6. "In My Room" (Paul Vance
   Paul Vance
   Paul Vance is an American songwriter and record producer.With over 300 recorded songs, Vance co-wrote such hits as "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," recorded in 1960 by Brian Hyland, which rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and "Catch a Falling Star," recorded in 1957 by...
   
   , Joaquin Prieto) - 3:01
7. "First Time" - 3:38
8. "(Your Love Is A) Lesion" - 5:38
9. "My Former Self" (Almond, Annie Hogan) - 2:45
10. "Once Was" (Almond, The Venomettes) - 5:10

Universal Music Japan 2004 Extra Tracks

1. "Fun City" - 7:49
2. "Sleaze Take It, Shake It" - 7:17
3. "Sleaze Taking It, Shaking It" - 7:15

Disc 2

1. "The Untouchable One" (Almond, Jenkinson) - 6:03
2. "Blood Wedding" (Traditional) - 01:51
3. "Black Heart" (Almond, Hogan) - 04:50
4. "Medley: Narcissus/Gloomy Sunday
   Gloomy Sunday
   "Gloomy Sunday" is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933, as "Vége a világnak" . Lyrics were written by László Jávor, and in his version the song was retitled "Szomorú vasárnap"...
   
   /Vision" (Almond, Sherlock, Peter Hammill
   Peter Hammill
   Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano...
   
   , Sam M. Lewis
   Sam M. Lewis
   Sam M. Lewis was a Jewish-American singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York as Samuel Levine-Biography:...
   
   , Rezső Seress
   Rezso Seress
   Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf Spitzer.Rezső Seress lived most of his life in poverty in Budapest, when, being Jewish, was taken to a labour camp by the Nazis during the Second World War...
   
   ) 11:46
5. "Torment" (Almond, Steven Severin
   Steven Severin
   Steven Severin , is an English musician, composer, bassist and co-founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees....
   
   , Robert Smith
   Robert Smith (musician)
   Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...
   
   ) - 4:21
6. "A Million Manias" (Almond, Foetus) - 5:52
7. "My Little Book of Sorrows" (Marc Almond
   Marc Almond
   Marc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell...
   
   ) - 5:59
8. "Beat out that Rhythm on a Drum" (Georges Bizet
   Georges Bizet
   Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
   
   , Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
   
   ) - 5:00

Universal Music Japan 2004 Extra Tracks

1. "Your Aura" (Marc Almond) - 6:18
2. "Mamba" (Mambas, Marc Almond) - 12:05
3. "First Time" - 3:38 (Venomettes, Almond)
4. "You'll Never see me on a Sunday" (Almond, Hogan) - 2:51

Somebizzare 2009 Extra Tracks

1. "Your Aura" (Marc Almond) - 6:18
2. "You'll Never see me on a Sunday" (Almond, Hogan) - 2:51
3. "Mamba" (Mambas, Marc Almond) - 12:05

Personnel

• Marc Almond
  Marc Almond
  Marc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell...
  
   - guitar, percussion, vocals
• Annie Hogan
  Anni Hogan
  Anni Hogan is a British musician, record producer, composer and Club DJ, born in 1961. Originally known for her association with British music artist Marc Almond, Hogan now collaborates with a diverse variety of artists including Rachel McFarlane and Cagedbaby....
  
   - piano, harpsichord, Farfisa organ, vocals
• Matt Johnson
  Matt Johnson (singer)
  Matt Johnson is a musician best known as the founder and only constant member of the group The The. Johnson is known for his often deeply introspective lyrics. Musically he ranges from slow acoustic hooks to techno-pop....
  
   - guitar
• The Venomettes - string arrangements
• Ginny Hewes - violin
• Billy McGee - double bass
• Anne Stephenson - violin
• Martin McCarrick
  Martin McCarrick
  Martin McCarrick is an English cellist, keyboardist and guitarist.He is best known for his work Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1987 until 1995. He recorded with them three studio albums : Peepshow, Superstition and The Rapture...
  
   - cello
• Peter Ashworth
  Peter Ashworth
  Peter Ashworth is a UK photographer. Ashworth initially specialized in music photography, between 1979 and 2000. In the 1980s, he worked with many UK bands including Eurythmics, Soft Cell, and Associates...
  
   - drums, timpani
• Frank Want - drums
• Steve Sherlock- flute, saxophone
• Lee Jenkinson - bass, guitar, drums, vocals