This Nation's Saving Grace - Influences

Influences

  • Yarbles (from the song titled "To NK Roachment: Yarbles") appears in the novel A Clockwork Orange as Nadsat for testicles or bollocks.
  • The CD edition of the album was covered in its entirety by members of the forum on the band's then-official website with the approval of Mark E. Smith. The complete album was also covered in concert by Triple Gang, who featured members of Faith No More and Fudge Tunnel.
  • The original vinyl version of the album has also been covered in its entirety by electronica act Globo, as an "experiment".
  • "I Am Damo Suzuki" is a tribute the 1970s German group Can and their sometime vocalist Damo Suzuki. The riff descending in semitones is based on the end section of "Bel Air" from the Can album Future Days (a similar progression also features in "Don't Turn The Light On, Leave Me Alone" from the Soundtracks album), while the drum pattern is based on "Oh Yeah" from Tago Mago.
  • "What You Need" takes its title from an episode of The Twilight Zone. The lyric "slippery shoes for your horrible feet" also originates from the plot of this episode.

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