Swamp Thing

The single carried Bowie's "John, I'm Only Dancing" on the B-side. We found no songwriting credit and no statement from Burgess about its meaning; blog readings of emotional strain are not his words. PopMatters says it received significant US college radio airplay, and a reviewer called it the incredibly atmospheric "Swamp Thing", one of the album's two hits with "Tears". We found no recording dates beyond the Strange Times sessions.

Setlist.fm lists it in 355 setlists, second only to "Second Skin" at 392. On the 2024 tour, at the Radio Room on October 24, 2024, it followed "Soul in Isolation" with eBow from Stephen Rice and a climax of major chords about seven minutes in, and at The Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts around August 10, 2024, Smithies segued from "Soul in Isolation" into its lick. Strange Times was played in full at Skully's in Columbus on October 20, 2024. We found no covers or samples.