For the Record!

A few weeks ago I remarked that a lot of tracks by the Fall had recently been uploaded to Youtube, and I suggested that they might soon be taken down.  However, I was wrong: there are now even more there, including this one which is there labelled as "Portugal", but which I remember as being called "Debacle".  I heard it played a year or two ago by Tom Robinson on his show on BBC Radio 6, and he said that Mark E. Smith had based the lyrics on a letter he had received complaining about the behaviour of his band.  As a 'punishment' Smith made them recite the contents of the letter as lyrics.  I suspect that this track hasn't been properly released because searching on Google does not seem to return any references to it's more memorable lyics ("snot balls!").

Update on Sat 2008-12-20 by Tristram Brelstaff

I obviously didn't search hard enough, for I have just come across the following note on this page describing the CD for the "Theme from Sparta FC #2":

The first pressing of the CD also contained a hidden track, Portugal (aka Debacle (For The Record)), in wav and 192kbps MP3 file formats, playable only on a computer. These CDs were supposed to be destroyed other than a handful of copies which had been sent out as promos, however it seems this didn't happen and the retail CDs were distributed with Portugal included.