Drinking Gasoline

{{Infobox album

| name = Drinking Gasoline

| type = EP

| artist = Cabaret Voltaire

| cover = Cabaretdrinking.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 1985

| recorded = December 1984 – January 1985

| venue =

| studio = Western Works, Sheffield

| genre = Electronic, experimental, industrial

| length = 33:04

| label = Some Bizzare; Distributed by Virgin

| producer = Cabaret Voltaire

| prev_title = Micro-Phonies

| prev_year = 1984

| next_title = The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord

| next_year = 1985

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r3106|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Omnibus Press |date=27 May 2011 |isbn=9780857125958 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&dq=%22cabaret+voltaire%22+%22body+and+soul%22&pg=PA3008 |accessdate=23 September 2024}}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Cabaret Voltaire |last=Considine |first=J. D. |author-link=J. D. Considine |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/128 128–29]}}

| rev4 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

| rev4score = 8/10{{cite book |last=Sinker |first=Mark |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor1-link=Eric Weisbard |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |chapter=Cabaret Voltaire |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide |publisher=Vintage Books |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-75574-8 |pages=67–68}}

}}

Drinking Gasoline is a 1985 EP release (taking the form of two 12" singles) by Cabaret Voltaire, originally released on the Some Bizzare label and distributed through Virgin Records. All four tracks are featured on the band's "Gasoline in Your Eye" videocassette, also issued in 1985. All known copies of the original UK pressing had labels on the wrong discs (ie, side 1 label on side 3, side 2 label on side 4.) It peaked at #71 in the UK.{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/cabaret%20voltaire/ |title=Cabaret Voltaire | Artist | Official Charts |work=officialcharts.com |accessdate=19 March 2013}}

Reception

John Leland at Spin called it, "living proof that technology is best entrusted to people who don't know how to use it. Sequencers and drum computers set a simple staccato cadence that the duo uses to carry its fragmented messages. Weird noises and voices cut in and out, irritating your peripheral senses while the hyperkinetic beatbox assaults your central nervous system with its idiot pounding."{{cite magazine| magazine= Spin | title=Singles|author=John Leland| date=October 1985|issue=6|page=38}} Andy Hurt of Sounds said "the men of steel say in 33 minutes what they once would have state in a tenth of the time. Disllusioning."{{Cite magazine |last=Hurt |first=Andy |date=3 August 1985 |title=Singles |url=http://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Sounds/80s/85/Sounds-1985-08-03-S-OCR.pdf |access-date=23 September 2024 |magazine=Sounds |page=14}}