| They Suffocate at Night | |
| Cover: | They_suffocate_at_night.gif |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Pulp |
| Album: | Freaks |
| B-Side: | Tunnel |
| Released: | 5 January 1987 |
| Recorded: | Input Studios, Sheffield June 1986 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 4:00 (Edited) 6:17 (Uncut) |
| Label: | Fire |
| Producer: | Pulp, Jonathan Kirk |
| Prev Title: | Dogs Are Everywhere |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Master of the Universe |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
"They Suffocate at Night" is the first single from the album Freaks by British band Pulp, released in 1987.[1] [2] The song and its B-side "Tunnel" were later included on the compilation album Masters of the Universe.[3]
All songs written and composed by Pulp.
Singer Jarvis Cocker recalled of the video: "It was made by someone who claimed to have done the lighting on Chariots of Fire, which impressed us a great deal at the time... we could only afford one roll of film, so he had to keep winding the film backwards and forwards for different bits of the song. I converted an inspection pit, in an abandoned warehouse across the road from the factory where I was living, into a sunken bedroom... For some reason, there was a horse skeleton in the building so that ended up in the film too."[4]