Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)

(Partridge)

UK #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# single front cover

UK Sgt. Rock single front cover

 Recordings
Art
Lyrics
Chords and Tablature
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Recordings

  1. Album version, 3'56.
    Recorded at Townhouse Studios, London, in June 1980.
    Released on Black Sea.
    Andy: “Right, I'm standing up here and now, and saying this song embarrasses the shit out of me. Of all the tunes that I've written, that made it to tape, this makes me cringe the worse. It's not the music, that's solid enough. All the instruments in the track mesh nicely enough, but the lyrical sentiment, oh dear. It was supposed to be ironic, you know, nerdy comic fan imagines two dimensional hero can help him with his unsuccessful chat up technique. It did not work. It just came out limply crap. Virgin insisted it be included in this set, otherwise I'd gladly erase it from our history. We all make mistakes.”
  2. Single edit, 3'36.
    Released on 5 December 1980 as a single in the U.K.
    Reached No. 16 on the U.K. singles chart on 21 February 1981.
    PLAY LOUD.
    Andy: “Just a simple admiration song. Sgt. Rock is a U.S. comic character who commands a troop known as Easy Company. He is brave, handsome, and successful, not as one empty headed girl wrote in to complain to a music paper, ‘likely to cause violence to women’.”
    Andy: “The least favourite of all my songs. It was written as a joke about a little weed who looked up to Sgt. Rock. It was a nerd's sad fantasy.” Dave: “It got a lot of airplay.” Andy: “I know, but I just wish we hadn't released it. There's something very . . . crap, really. Something banal about it.”
  3. 2017 stereo mix.
    Mixed and produced by Steven Wilson from the original multi-track tapes.
    Released on the reissue of Black Sea on 17 November 2017 in the U.K.
  4. 2017 5.1 mix.
    Mixed and produced by Steven Wilson from the original multi-track tapes.
    Released on the reissue of Black Sea on 17 November 2017 in the U.K.
  5. 2017 instrumental mix.
    Mixed and produced by Steven Wilson from the original multi-track tapes.
    Released on the reissue of Black Sea on 17 November 2017 in the U.K.
  6. Early version.
    Phonogram Studio recording.
    Mixed and produced by Steven Wilson from the original multi-track tapes.
    Released on the reissue of Black Sea on 17 November 2017 in the U.K.

[Thanks to R. Stevie Moore]

Art

UK #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# single front cover

UK Sgt. Rock single front cover

 UK #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# single back cover

UK Sgt. Rock single back cover

 #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# poster sleeve

Sgt. Rock poster sleeve
poster from #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# sleeve

poster from Sgt. Rock sleeve

 another view of the #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# poster sleeve

another view of the Sgt. Rock poster sleeve

 #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# French single

Sgt. Rock French single
#\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# single from Portugal, with promo insert

Sgt. Rock single from Portugal, with promo insert

 #\#a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/artists/x/xtc/video/xtc_sgt_rock.ram" target="churl"#/#Snippet of “Sgt. Rock” lip-sync on #\#i#/#Top of the Pops#\#/i#/#, 22 February 1981#\#/a#/#

Snippet of “Sgt. Rock” lip-sync on Top of the Pops, 22 February 1981

 trade advert for the #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# single

trade advert for the Sgt. Rock single
#\#a href="http://youtu.be/m5e2guITOcw" target="churl"#/#“Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)” lip-sync on #\#i#/#Top of the Pops#\#/i#/#, 22 February 1981#\#/a#/#

“Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)” lip-sync on Top of the Pops, 22 February 1981

 #\#i#/#Sgt. Rock#\#/i#/# sticker

Sgt. Rock sticker

  

Lyrics

I'm enlisting, overseas aid
need assisting, help with a maid
get the expert, on mademoiselles
he could diffuse, any bombshell

If I could only be tough like him
then I could win
my own, small, battle of the sexes

Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
make the girl mine, wave the victory sign

I'm invading, territories
Girls are foreign, and strange to me
get the expert, at kissing and stuff
he stays easy, when things get rough

Sometimes relationships don't go as planned
some girls, can make themselves so cold
a no-mans land.

© 1980 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.

Chords and Tablature

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:29:08 +0100
From: Florian Decros <flodecros (at) gmail dot com>
Subject: Bass tabs for Black Sea
Message-ID: <CAPtZtiMEot5AHL_+cxMcr+04FpjkfeJhrP8+8hK7B15ycOk_KA (at) mail dot gmail dot com>

Hi !
Here's the bass tablatures for the 11 (great) songs from the classic "Black Sea". A lot of repetitive bass lines, but also some tricky parts. Sorry if there's any mistakes, and I hope you'll enjoy those basslines as much as I do.
Cheers,
Florian.

Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 16:00:17 -0700
From: hbmus047 (at) email dot csun dot edu (Ian Dahlberg)
Subject: Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me) TAB


Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)


Quick 'n dirty Sgt. Rock chords taken directly from "11 Different Animals"
An XTC songbook made with David Gregory's supervision.


E----X---X--X--------------------------------------|
B----X---X--X--------------------------------------|
G----11--10-9----------6---4---6-9-----------------|  etc.
D----0---0--0--------------------------------------|
A----11--10-9----------4---2---4-7-----------------|
E----0---0--0--------------------------------------|
     +   .    .   .    +   .   .   .   +


Lead in

    C                  A7             D7             Abm9+5   (battle of the...
E----8----------------12--------------10-------------12-------------|
B----8----------------12--------------10-------------12-------------|
G----9----------------12--------------11-------------11-------------|
D----10---------------11--------------10-------------10-------------|
A----10---------------0---------------12-------------11-------------|
E----8----------------X---------------10-------------X--------------|
     +   .   .   .    +   .   .   .   +  .   .   .   +   .   .   .


Chorus
     C               Cm7              F7             Fm7
E----8----------------8---------------8--------------8-----------|
B----8----------------8---------------8--------------8-----------|
G----9----------------8---------------8--------------8-----------|
D----10---------------8---------------7--------------6-----------|
A----10---------------10--------------8--------------8-----------|
E----8----------------8---------------X--------------X-----------|
     +   .   .   .    +   .   .   .   +  .   .   .   +   .   .   .


     C               Cm7              F7             Fm7
E----8----------------8---------------8--------------8-----------|
B----8----------------8---------------8--------------8-----------|
G----9----------------8---------------8--------------8-----------|
D----10---------------8---------------7--------------6-----------|
A----10---------------10--------------8--------------8-----------|
E----8----------------8---------------X--------------X-----------|
     +   .   .   .    +   .   .   .   +  .   .   .   +   .   .   .


(make the girl....    wave the vict-'ry sign)
       F7             Fm7
E------8--------------8-----------|
B------8--------------8-----------|
G------8--------------8-----------|
D------7--------------6-----------|
A------8--------------8-----------|
E------X--------------X-----------|
     +   .   .   .    +   .   .   .


Bridge
     Ab               F7              Bb7            Db7
E----4----------------1---------------1--------------4-----------|
B----4----------------1---------------3--------------4-----------|
G----5----------------2---------------1--------------4-----------|
D----6----------------1---------------3--------------3-----------|
A----6----------------3---------------1--------------4-----------|
E----4----------------1---------------X--------------X-----------|
     +   .   .   .    +   .   .   .   +  .   .   .   +   .   .   .

                                       ( ...no-man's land)
     Ab               F7              Bb7            B7
E----4----------------1---------------1--------------2-----------|
B----4----------------1---------------3--------------4-----------|
G----5----------------2---------------1--------------2-----------|
D----6----------------1---------------3--------------4-----------|
A----6----------------3---------------1--------------2-----------|
E----4----------------1---------------X--------------X-----------|
     +   .   .   .    +   .   .   .   +  .   .   .   +   .   .   .
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