Sorry for Laughing

There are three versions: the November 1980 Castle Sound recording on the shelved LP, the Brussels single for Crepuscule, released in April 1981 with "Revelation" on the B-side, and the album version, recorded in Brussels in April 1981, which is our upload. The sources do not say whether the single and album takes are the same. Toppermost calls the single the band's most commercial recording, closest in sound to Orange Juice, and Haig said the Brussels sound finally captured their live intensity; The Arts Desk finds the spikier album version stronger than the shelved one. We found no artist statement on what the song is about and no chart entry for it.

Propaganda covered it on A Secret Wish (1985), and Nouvelle Vague, with Marina Celeste singing, recorded it in 2004 as a bonus track on the special edition of their debut. Franz Ferdinand, Edwyn Collins and Malcolm Ross played it backstage at T in the Park on July 10, 2009, filmed for BBC3. Setlist.fm shows seven plays, fifth most in its Josef K data.