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	When ''Attack of the Grey Lantern'' was released in February 1997, it charted at #1 on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref name="chartstats"/> The album was preceded by four singles, the first of which "Egg Shaped Fred" was released a year prior. "Egg Shaped Fred" was Mansun's début single for Parlophone Records and made #37<ref name="chartstats"/> in the UK. The following three singles ("[[Stripper Vicar (Song)\|Stripper Vicar]]", "[[Wide Open Space (Song)\|Wide Open Space]]", "[[She Makes My Nose Bleed (Song)\|She Makes My Nose Bleed]]") all made the top forty each improving of the previous singles' chart position. The final single released from the album was "Taxloss" which followed the album in April 1997 and made #15.<ref name="chartstats"/> In the US, Mansun enjoyed their only chart success with "Wide Open Space" reaching the modest position of #25 on the ''Billboard'' [[Modern Rock Tracks]] chart.		When ''Attack of the Grey Lantern'' was released in February 1997, it charted at #1 on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref name="chartstats"/> The album was preceded by four singles, the first of which "Egg Shaped Fred" was released a year prior. "Egg Shaped Fred" was Mansun's début single for Parlophone Records and made #37<ref name="chartstats"/> in the UK. The following three singles ("[[Stripper Vicar (Song)\|Stripper Vicar]]", "[[Wide Open Space (Song)\|Wide Open Space]]", "[[She Makes My Nose Bleed (Song)\|She Makes My Nose Bleed]]") all made the top forty each improving of the previous singles' chart position. The final single released from the album was "Taxloss" which followed the album in April 1997 and made #15.<ref name="chartstats"/> In the US, Mansun enjoyed their only chart success with "Wide Open Space" reaching the modest position of #25 on the ''Billboard'' [[Modern Rock Tracks]] chart.

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-'''''Attack of the Grey Lantern''''' is Mansun's debut album released in February 1997 via [[Parlophone]].  The album spent a total of 19 weeks on the [[UK Albums Chart]], peaking at number one.<ref name="chartstats">{{cite | title=Mansun at chartstats.com | url=http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=7722 | dom=chartstats.com |fetchdate=3 August 2009}}</ref>
+'''''Attack of the Grey Lantern''''' is Mansun's debut album released in the UK on the 15{{supo|th}} February 1997 via [[Parlophone]] - it was released in Japan 9 days prior to the UK release.<BR>The album spent a total of 19 weeks on the [[UK Albums Chart]], peaking at number one.<ref name="chartstats">{{cite | title=Mansun at chartstats.com | url=http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=7722 | dom=chartstats.com |fetchdate=3 August 2009}}</ref>
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 [[Paul Draper]] admits that ''Attack of the Grey Lantern'' is not a fully fledged concept album, it was his intention for it to be one, until he "ran out of steam", labelling the LP "half a concept album – a con album".<ref name="Select Review"/>  The majority of the record is centred on the concept of a superhero, known as "The Grey Lantern", in the guise of Draper himself.  Throughout the album, the hero encounters a number of immoral inhabitants in a fictional [[England|English]] village.<ref name="Select Review"/><ref name="Guardian Review"/>
-<blockquote>Well, The Grey Lantern is like a comic-book hero — the album is about this village of people with really disgusting morals and the Grey Lantern sorts them out. I suppose the Grey Lantern's me. I wouldn't have a cape, but there are definitely characters on the record — Albert Taxloss, Chad, Dark Mavis. At the end of the album it all gets resolved and you find Mavis is actually the Stripper Vicar.<ref name="Select Review"/></blockquote>
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 At the time of release, Draper hinted at a possible album sequel, titled "The Return Of The Grey Lantern".<ref name="Select Review"/>  For its American release, the album's running order was re-sequenced, a move which some felt compromised the intended concept, as the song "Stripper Vicar" was replaced with "Take It Easy, Chicken."

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-According to the ''[[Kleptomania (Album)|Kleptomania]]'' liner notes, [[Paul Draper]] states that "[[Take It Easy Chicken (Song)|Take It Easy, Chicken]]" was their first song and the band really did not know how to play their instruments, let alone play as a band, when DJs [[Steve Lamacq]] and [[John Peel]] started to play the song on [[BBC Radio 1]].  Through 1996 and 1997, [[Mansun]] released "[[Egg Shaped Fred (Song)|Egg Shaped Fred]]" (which was re-recorded for the album to include new drummer [[Andie Rathbone]]), "Stripper Vicar", "She Makes My Nose Bleed" and "Taxloss" (styled Taxlo$$). "Wide Open Space" became a dance anthem after being remixed by DJ and producer [[Paul Oakenfold]] under the production alias Perfecto. This remix was included on Oakenfold's compilation ''Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream'', as an indicator of being one of the most played songs at major UK nightclub Cream, as well as in nightclubs around the world, over the 1997-1999 period.<ref>{{cite | author = Birchmeier, Jason | year = | dom = Allmusic.com | title = Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream review | format = | work = | publisher = Allmusic | fetchdate = 2006-04-11 }}</ref>
+According to the ''[[Kleptomania (Album)|Kleptomania]]'' liner notes, [[Paul Draper]] states that "[[Take It Easy Chicken (Song)|Take It Easy, Chicken]]" was their first song and the band really did not know how to play their instruments, let alone play as a band, when DJs [[Steve Lamacq]] and [[John Peel]] started to play the song on [[BBC Radio 1]].  Through 1996 and 1997, [[Mansun]] released "[[Egg Shaped Fred (Song)|Egg Shaped Fred]]" (which was re-recorded for the album to include new drummer [[Andie Rathbone]]), "[[Stripper Vicar (Song)|Stripper Vicar]]", "[[She Makes My Nose Bleed (Song)|She Makes My Nose Bleed]]" and "[[Taxloss (Song)|Taxloss]]" (styled Taxlo$$). "[[Wide Open Space (Song)|Wide Open Space]]" became a dance anthem after being remixed by DJ and producer [[Paul Oakenfold]] under the production alias Perfecto. This remix was included on Oakenfold's compilation ''[[Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream (Album)|Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream]]'', as an indicator of being one of the most played songs at major UK nightclub [[Cream]], as well as in nightclubs around the world, over the 1997-1999 period.<ref>{{cite | author = Birchmeier, Jason | year = | dom = Allmusic.com | title = Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream review | format = | work = | publisher = Allmusic | fetchdate = 2006-04-11 }}</ref>
-"Taxloss" alludes melodically and lyrically to [[The Beatles]]' song "[[Taxman]]", and also to the rhythmic feel of "[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]",  as well as "[[Long Haired Lover from Liverpool]]" by [[Little Jimmy Osmond]]. The video notoriously featured the band throwing £25,000 in five pound banknotes onto the main concourse of London's [[Liverpool Street station]] during rush hour and watching the ensuing chaos.<ref name="Natts"> {{Cite | title = Mansun | url =  http://natts.com/mansun/mansun.html | dom = natts.com <sup>dead link</sup> | type=ext | fetchdate=August 2012}}</ref>
+"Taxloss" alludes melodically and lyrically to [[The Beatles]]' song "[[Taxman]]", and also to the rhythmic feel of "[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]",  as well as "[[Long Haired Lover from Liverpool]]" by [[Little Jimmy Osmond]]. The video notoriously featured the band throwing £25,000 in five pound banknotes onto the main concourse of London's [[Liverpool Street Station|Liverpool Street station]] during rush hour and watching the ensuing chaos.<ref name="Natts"> {{Cite | title = Mansun | url =  http://natts.com/mansun/mansun.html | dom = natts.com <sup>dead link</sup> | type=ext | fetchdate=August 2012}}</ref>
 "The Chad Who Loved Me"'s main theme comes from John Barry's 1967 song [[You Only Live Twice (song)|You Only Live Twice]] from the [[You Only Live Twice (film)|James Bond film of the same name]].

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 .	"[[Naked Twister (Song)|Naked Twister]]"  	(4:39)
-.	"[[Take It Easy, Chicken (Song)|Take It Easy, Chicken]]"  	(4:26)
+.	"[[Take It Easy Chicken (Song)|Take It Easy, Chicken]]"  	(4:26)
 .	"[[You, Who Do You Hate? (Song)|You, Who Do You Hate?]]"  	(3:09)

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	11b. "[[An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter (Song)\|An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter"]] (Hidden track at the end of Dark Mavis) (4:02)		11b. "[[An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter (Song)\|An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter"]] (Hidden track at the end of Dark Mavis) (4:02)
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		+	'''US edition'''
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		+	1. "[[The Chad Who Loved Me (Song)\|The Chad Who Loved Me]]" (5:02)
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		+	2. "[[Wide Open Space (Song)\|Wide Open Space]]" (4:31)
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		+	3. "[[She Makes My Nose Bleed (Song)\|She Makes My Nose Bleed]]" (3:55)
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		+	4. "[[Naked Twister (Song)\|Naked Twister]]" (4:39)
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		+	5. "[[Take It Easy, Chicken (Song)\|Take It Easy, Chicken]]" (4:26)
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		+	6. "[[You, Who Do You Hate? (Song)\|You, Who Do You Hate?]]" (3:09)
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		+	7. "[[Mansun's Only Love Song (Song)\|Mansun's Only Love Song]]" (5:55)
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		+	8. "[[Taxloss (Song)\|Taxloss]]" (7:02)
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		+	9. "[[Disgusting (Song)\|Disgusting]]" (4:21)
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		+	10. "[[Egg Shaped Fred (Song)\|Egg Shaped Fred]]" (4:12)
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		+	11. "[[Dark Mavis (Song)\|Dark Mavis]]" (8:36)
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		+	'''Japanese edition'''
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		+	1. "[[The Chad Who Loved Me (Song)\|The Chad Who Loved Me]]" (5:02)
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		+	2. "[[Mansun's Only Love Song (Song)\|Mansun's Only Love Song]]" (5:55)
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		+	3. "[[Taxloss (Song)\|Taxloss]]" (7:02)
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		+	4. "[[You, Who Do You Hate? (Song)\|You, Who Do You Hate?]]" (3:06)
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		+	5. "[[Wide Open Space (Song)\|Wide Open Space]]" (4:31)
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		+	6. "[[Stripper Vicar (Song)\|Stripper Vicar]]" (4:05)
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		+	7. "[[Disgusting (Song)\|Disgusting]]" (5:07)
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		+	8. "[[She Makes My Nose Bleed (Song)\|She Makes My Nose Bleed]]" (3:55)
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		+	9. "[[Naked Twister (Song)\|Naked Twister]]" (4:39)
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		+	10. "[[Egg Shaped Fred (Song)\|Egg Shaped Fred]]" (4:12)
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		+	11. "[[Dark Mavis (Song)\|Dark Mavis]]" (8:36)
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		+	12. "[[Flourella (Song)\|Flourella]]" (Bonus Track) (4:18)
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		+	13. "[[The Gods of Not Very Much (Song)\|The Gods of Not Very Much]]" (Bonus Track) (4:39)

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 '''UK edition'''
-.	"[[The Chad Who Loved Me]]"  	(5:02)
+.	"[[The Chad Who Loved Me (Song)|The Chad Who Loved Me]]"  	(5:02)
-.	"[[Mansun's Only Love Song]]"  	(5:55)
+.	"[[Mansun's Only Love Song (Song)|Mansun's Only Love Song]]"  	(5:55)
-.	"[[Taxloss]]"  	(7:02)
+.	"[[Taxloss (Song)|Taxloss]]"  	(7:02)
-.	"[[You, Who Do You Hate?]]"  	(3:06)
+.	"[[You, Who Do You Hate? (Song)|You, Who Do You Hate?]]"  	(3:06)
-.	"[[Wide Open Space]]"  	(4:31)
+.	"[[Wide Open Space (Song)|Wide Open Space]]"  	(4:31)
-.	"[[Stripper Vicar]]"  	(4:05)
+.	"[[Stripper Vicar (Song)|Stripper Vicar]]"  	(4:05)
-.	"[[Disgusting]]"  	(5:07)
+.	"[[Disgusting (Song)|Disgusting]]"  	(5:07)
-.	"[[She Makes My Nose Bleed]]"  	(3:55)
+.	"[[She Makes My Nose Bleed (Song)|She Makes My Nose Bleed]]"  	(3:55)
-.	"[[Naked Twister]]"  	(4:39)
+.	"[[Naked Twister (Song)|Naked Twister]]"  	(4:39)
-.	"[[Egg Shaped Fred]]"  	(4:12)
+.	"[[Egg Shaped Fred (Song)|Egg Shaped Fred]]"  	(4:12)
-a.   "[[Dark Mavis]]"  	(8:36)
+a.   "[[Dark Mavis (Song)|Dark Mavis]]"  	(8:36)
-b.	"[[An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter"]] (Hidden track at the end of Dark Mavis)	(4:02)
+b.	"[[An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter (Song)|An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter"]] (Hidden track at the end of Dark Mavis)	(4:02)
 ==Trivia==