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FAC 168 Mickey Way (The Candy Bar); front cover detail
FAC 168 Mickey Way (The Candy Bar); front cover detail
FAC 168 Mickey Way (The Candy Bar); back cover detail [2]
FAC 168 Mickey Way (The Candy Bar); back cover detail [2]

Release date

June 1985

Format

12"

Tracklisting

12"

Wild Party
Sounds Like Something Dirty

FAC 168 Mickey Way (The Candy Bar); front cover detail [2]
FAC 168 Mickey Way (The Candy Bar); front cover detail [2]

Cassette single

Wild Party
Sounds Like Something Dirty
Life's a Scream (Live)
Force (Live)
Wild Party (Live)

Line-up

A Certain Ratio are

Andrew Connell
Jeremy Kerr
Donald Johnson
Martin Moscrop
with
Anthony Quigley on Sax

Credits

Factory Communications
Manchester, England

45rpm
Written & produced by ACR
Engineered by Mike Johnson
Recorded at Strawberry Studios
Mixed at Revolution Studios
Copyright control exclusive to ACR
Sleeve - Trevor Johnson

March 1985

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In a rare outbreak of Factory advertising the whole of Manchester city centre was plastered with Mickey Way 12"-sized promotional stickers to mark the release of this single.

The title track features a sample of Bill Murray from a National Lampoon album called "That's not funny, that's sick". The line comes from a game show bit where Bill Murray has to name 4 famous Mickeys. He gets Mickey Mouse, Mantle, and Rooney, and then he gets stuck. Thanks to Paul Boyd for the Bill Murray sample info.