A-side "Arnold Layne" Length 2:38 | Released 10 March 1967 Writer(s) Syd Barrett | |
Recorded 29 January 1967 at
Sound Techniques Studios
(London, United Kingdom)
27 February 1967 at
EMI Studios
(London, United Kingdom) Label Columbia (EMI) (UK)
Tower/Capitol (US) | ||
"Candy and a Currant Bun" was the B-side to Pink Floyd's first single, Arnold Layne. Its lyrical content is about drugs and casual sex.
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Lyric change
When performed live in 1967, the song was known as "Let's Roll Another One" and contained the line "I'm high - Don't try to spoil my fun", but the record company forced Syd Barrett to rewrite it, at the suggestion of Roger Waters, without the controversial drug references. Nevertheless, the recorded version added the line "Oh don't talk with me/Please just fuck with me", which the BBC censors missed.
The Mars Volta cover
The Mars Volta's cover of "Candy and a Currant Bun" was released in some U.S. indie stores as free 5" VinylDisc in 2008. It was given away with purchase of the album The Bedlam in Goliath. The VinylDisc was an experimental format that contained a digital side and a vinyl side, one side playing in a CD player, while the other side playing on a turntable. The vinyl side contains the Pink Floyd cover "Candy and a Currant Bun", while the CD side contains the audio track for "Candy and a Currant Bun" as well as the Wax Simulacra video as enhanced content. It also comes with a removable foam spindle insert to switch between CD & vinyl.
The track was a bonus track on the UK and Australasian releases of the album.