Danger Came Smiling

Danger Came Smiling was the final LP released by Manchester post-punk group Ludus. It was first issued by New Hormones in September 1982.

The album stands apart in the band's discography, being a lot more experimental, improvisational and intentionally less accessible than their other work. It consists of eighteen mostly short tracks. Instead of conventional lyrics, singer Linder Sterling provides a selection of cries, yells, laughter and spoken interludes (including diary records of Reichian therapy), and one very short track sung a capella. The music seems to be deliberately kicking against the slick pop that dominated charts at the time. The LP has been described by guitarist Ian Devine as a therapeutic exercise, and by Linder as a "personal exorcism".

Track listing
  1. Foaming at the Bit
  2. Howling Comique
  3. You Open My Legs Like a Book
  4. Flogging Cully
  5. Mememoremee
  6. Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
  7. I Stabbed at the Sheep
  8. Mistresspiece
  9. Bloody Chamber
  10. Would You Rather Dancing Be?
  11. Wonder-Wounded
  12. Savasana
  13. Bitch Party
  14. Modju
  15. Palace of Thieves
  16. Redress
  17. Crinkum-Crankum
  18. Centuries

Currently, Danger Came Smiling is available on CD as a double-issue with the Ludus' 1981 EP Pickpocket. The compilation, Pickpocket/Danger Came Smiling, is available from the label Les Temps Modernes.


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