If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul
If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul is the second compilation album released by Some Bizzare and features tracks by Einstürzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire, Coil and Marc Almond.
Cover Artwork
The cover artwork was designed by Val Denham. In the early eighties Denham had been designing covers for Marc and the Mambas and was asked to design the cover for “If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul”. The original artwork was designed in 1985 and had a small Mickey Mouse sitting on the desk. Some Bizzare were refused permission by the Disney Corporation to use it so it was changed. The seated man in the cover was known as “Zib Cisum” which was "music biz" spelt backwards. Zib was supposed to represent a music business executive. The telephone on the desk originally had a “psychic cross” on the front, this was a symbol used by the band Psychic TV; this was later removed. The little girl at the window was later added to represent Val Denham, the album cover's designer.
Track listing
- Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - The Only Good Christian is a Dead Christian
- Cabaret Voltaire - Product Patrol
- Test Dept - Total Nervous Phenomonom
- Marc Almond - Love Amongst the Ruin
- Psychic TV - Twisted
- The The - Flesh and Bones
- Coil - The Wheel
- Yello - The Roxy Cut
- Virginia Astley - Waiting to Fall
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Wardrobe
Personnel
- Compiled - Stevo Pearce
- Cover Design - Val Denham
- Graphics - Paul White