The Beast with Two Backs is the seventh full-length studio album by British

United Kingdom

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 goth rock band Inkubus Sukkubus

Inkubus Sukkubus

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. It contains 12 original tracks and a cover of 'Can't Get You out of My Head

Can't Get You out of My Head

"Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a song by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue, which was released from her eighth studio album Fever . The song was released worldwide as the lead single from the album, which was released on 8 September, 2001. The song was written and produced...

' by Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

 with altered lyrics that more appropriately reflect the band's aesthetics. The cover was designed by Tony McKormack, a core member of the band.

The album's title refers to a British slang

Slang

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 term for sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse

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: 'To make the beast with two backs'. While the first English usage of the term was in 1603, by Shakespeare in Othello

Othello

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("I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs"), the French translation of the term, la bête à deux dos, dates back to at least 1532, in François Rabelais

François Rabelais

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' Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Track listing

All songs written by Candia Ridley and Tony McKormack, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Hecaté Cerridwyn" – 1:37
2. "Lily Bolane" – 4:59
3. "Star of Venus" – 4:53
4. "Hedonistic Gene" – 5:30
5. "Vampyra" – 4:59
6. "The Beast with Two Backs" – 3:21
7. "I Just Can't Get You Out of my Head
   Can't Get You out of My Head
   "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a song by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue, which was released from her eighth studio album Fever . The song was released worldwide as the lead single from the album, which was released on 8 September, 2001. The song was written and produced...
   
    (Kylie Minogue Cover)" (Davis, Dennis
   Cathy Dennis
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   ) – 5:25
8. "Vampire Punk Rockers from Hell" – 4:34
9. "She Is Gone" – 5:13
10. "City of the Dead" – 3:44
11. "Take My Lust" – 4:32
12. "Erotic Angel" – 3:32
13. "Jägermeister" – 4:30

Personnel

• Candia Ridley – tambourine
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  , vocals, tin whistle
  Tin whistle
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• Adam Henderson – bass guitar
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• Tony McKormack – bass guitar, electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , keyboard instruments, background vocals, twelve string guitar
  Twelve string guitar
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