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SIDE ONE

1            (Listen To The) Flower People
2            Break Like The Wind
3            Green Leaves / Our Hideaway
4            Red Robin
5            A Good Different Thing
6            Rainy Day Sun  [original UK pressing only]
7            (Again With The) Flower People

SIDE TWO

1            Have A Nice Death
2            Gimme Some Money  [US pressing only]
3            Cups And Cakes  [US pressing only]
 

• This album was released in the UK under the simpler title SPINAL TAP.
• The single "(Listen To The) Flower People" was a number one hit.
• "Break Like The Wind" appears in its original version with Ronnie Pudding, while the 1992 version was a complete re-recording with no elements of the original track.
• "Green Leaves" is a very short parody of "Greensleeves," with Tap good-humouredly crooning about marijuana. The song serves as a silly intro which leads directly into the fun sing-a-long, "Our Hideaway." (Incidentally, the original UK pressing listed the entire track as "Green Leaves.")
• The track "Rainy Day Sun" appears on the original UK pressing and on the accompanying single in its purest form, while the version released in 1992 is heavily remixed. To avoid buyers confusing the tune with songs such as the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus", Tap reissued the album without the song, and pulled the single from the market.
• "Have A Nice Death" is an epic track in the vein of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." A highlight is Eric Childs' only drum solo to be committed to record.
• The two Thamesmen tracks at the end of side two were, in a style more commonly attributed to Capitol Records, hastily tacked on for 'added value.'
• Though the bass on the record is played by Ronnie Pudding, his playing was mimed to by Derek Smalls when the band appeared on the television show Jamboreebop. By this time, Pudding was much the Syd Barrett of the group, and was in fact replaced on the cover of the "(Listen To The) Flower People" single by Derek, who was at the time just a mere session musician for the group. Also, contrary to popular belief, John "Stumpy" Pepys did not play on this record.
• This is the only known album in Tap's back catalogue to have been released on CD - the UK version of the album was released as a very poor mono pirate on the Japan-based Teichiku Records label. (It should be noted, however, that this was pirated from a later UK pressing, meaning that "Rainy Day Sun" does not appear.)

 
Above: The Teichiku release.  Click to enlarge scans.

(LISTEN TO THE) FLOWER PEOPLE
(Pudding)

Listen... to what the flower people say
Listen... it's getting louder every day
Listen... it's like a bolt out of the blue
Listen... it could be calling now for you

Flower people walk on by
Flower people don't you cry
It's not too late (No!)
It's not too late

Listen... it's like a Mozart symphony
Listen... it's something just for you and me
Listen... to what the flower people say
Listen... it's getting truer every day
 
 

BREAK LIKE THE WIND
(Tufnel / St. Hubbins)

We are the children who grew too fast
We are the dust of a future past
We raise our voices in the night
Crying to heaven
And will our voices be heard
Or will they break like the wind?

We are the footprints across the sands
We are the thumb on a stranger's hand
We made a promise in the night
Swearing to heaven
Is this a promise we keep
Or one we break like the wind

Hey!

We are the guests who have stayed too long
We are the end of the endless song
We send our hearts into the night
Soaring to heaven
And will out hearts still beat on
Or will they break like the wind?

Ooh, break like the wind!
 
 

RAINY DAY SUN
(Tufnel / St. Hubbins)

Here she comes, that Rainy Day Sun
Peeking in and out the falling raindrops
Smiling down on everyone

In her golden, gossamer gown
And a necklace of the finest rainbows
Drying out this rainy day town

Good-bye, cloudy skies!
Here she comes! Here she comes to
Cut them down to size
And dry the tears in my eyes

Here she comes that Rainy Day Sun
Like a moppet at a birthday party
Rainy day's not spoiling her fun

Open up the top of your mind
Catch the water in your magic paint-box
Oh, the many colors you find

Good-bye, cloudy skies
Here she comes! Here she comes to
Cut them down to size
And dry the tears in my eyes

We love you rainy day sun...
 
 

GIMME SOME MONEY
(Pudding / Tufnel / St. Hubbins)

Stop wasting my time
You know what I want
You know what I need
Or maybe you don't
Do I have to come right
Flat out and tell you everything?

Gimme some money
Gimme some money

I'm nobody's fool
I'm nobody's clown
I'm treating you cool
I'm putting you down
But baby I don't intend to leave empty handed
Gimme some money
Gimme some money

Go Nigel go!

Don't get me wrong
Try getting me right
Your face is ok, but your purse is too tight
I'm looking for pound notes, loose change
Bad checks, anything

Gimme some money
Gimme some money...
 
 

CUPS AND CAKES
(Tufnel / St. Hubbins)

Cups and cakes
Cups and cakes
Oh what good things mother makes
You've got to take tea won't you take it with me
What a gay time it will be

Cups and cakes
Cups and cakes
Please make sure that nothing breaks
The china's so dear and the treacle so clear
And I'm glad that you are here

Milk and sugar
Bread and Jam
Yes please, sir, and thank you ma'm
Here I am

Cups and cakes
Cups and cakes
I'm so full my tummy aches
How sad it must end
But I'm glad I've a friend
Sharing cups and cakes with me
And cakes with me...