The Sad Skinhead

"The Sad Skinhead" is the second track on Faust IV, 2:43 on the original LP (2:36 on the 2006 EMI reissue and 2:37 on a 2025 Bureau B listing), recorded in June 1973 at the Manor in Oxfordshire and produced by Nettelbeck. The writer credit was not verified in the sources read. Head Heritage's Fitter Stoke called it a single that never was, nearer "The Pushbike Song" than cosmic music, with fight-scene noises over the middle, as crass as The Pipkins and as catchy as mumps, and he loved it; other reviewers hear reggae or ska in it.

Madlib sampled it on "Far Faust" (2:09), track four of Rock Konducta Pt. 1 (Madlib Invazion, December 5, 2013), a sample stated on the Faust IV page. Setlist.fm counts 22 performances, the second most played Faust song after "Krautrock" (32), and it appears in the average setlist of the 1994 US tour. No chart history, video or comment from the band was found.