Song · The Bends era (1994–96)
You Never Wash Up After Yourself
A minute and three quarters of domestic irritation, with the drummer audibly leaving the room.
My Iron Lung (EP)album- 1994released
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1994
one take
It is short and acoustic, a complaint about someone who leaves the washing up, and what was released is reportedly a single live take, engineered by Jim Warren rather than by John Leckie, the producer of The Bends. In his NME feature on the EP, Stuart Bailie noticed that Phil Selway can be heard walking out partway through: Selway thought it was a rehearsal.
It came out on 26 September 1994 as the last track on the second of the two “My Iron Lung” CDs, after “Lewis (Mistreated)” and “Permanent Daylight”. Thom Yorke told the fanzine Sun Zoom Spark that this song and four others from the EPs were slightly too diverse for the flow of the album they had finished, and were there for the people who had bought the earlier records and had been waiting a long time.
on stage
A live take.· ExoArchivewatch on youtube →
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- Wikipedia, “My Iron Lung (EP)”, for the release.
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives, for Jim Warren and the single take.
- The site's news archive, 1 October 1994, for Selway walking out, drawing on Stuart Bailie's NME feature.
- The site's news archive, November 1994, for Yorke on the EP songs, drawing on Sun Zoom Spark, issue 6.
- The site's news archive, 8 October 1994, for the CD's running order.