“I Want You” by Inspiral Carpets featuring Mark E Smith

"I Want You" came off Devil Hopping, the fourth album from British indie outfit Inspiral Carpets, out on Mute in March 1994, and the single version brings in a guest with a voice like a rusty gate: Mark E. Smith of the Fall, barging into the band's song and refusing to wipe his feet.

Pascal Gabriel produced it, and he is the reason the album carries its odd title: Devil Hopping is simply how he pronounced "developing". The record pushed toward a punchier rock sound, by one critic's reckoning, but it also marked the end of the road with the label, as Mute let the band go once it was out. John Peel's listeners, at least, put this one at the very top of his Festive Fifty that year.

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