For Screening Purposes Only
For Screening Purposes Only is the debut album by UK dance-punk trio Test Icicles. After being released in 2005, the album was critically praised for being unique and compelling in an increasingly homogenous indie music scene. Following the group's split in February 2006, the album remains Test Icicles' only LP.
Title
The name of the album is derived from the 1999 film Thicker Than Water. In the movie the phrase "For screening purposes only" appears on screen whenever any violence occurs in the film. Band member Rory Atwell has also stated that the first song on the album, "Your Biggest Mistake", is about the film.
Track listing
Track listings and writing credits.
For Only
an image from a long long time ago
is haunting me, it plays itself with
picture perfect clarity
a certain walk a certain talk
-forever twenty-three-
for only me to see
chorus:
I watch it like a movie
the details so consume me
what's real will surface when it's gone
(and then it's gone)
by now you've heard the news
what is there left to do
chorus:
I watch it like a movie
the details so consume me
what's real will surface when it's gone
(and then it's gone)
your face looks so familiar
unwashed and quite peculiar
no I can't say that I recall