Now

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A1	Smoke (La Vie En Fumér) Written-By – Spooner*, Cotten*, Welnick*	4:50
A2	Hit Parade Written-By – Spooner*, Welnick*	3:35
A3	Strung Out On Strings Written-By – Spooner*, Evans*, Steen*	4:10
A4	Golden Boy Harmonica [Uncredited] – Harry DuncanWritten-By – Spooner*, Evans*	4:00
A5	My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains Written-By – Van Vliet*	4:30
B1	God-Bird-Change Written-By – Lewis*	3:18
B2	I'm Just A Mess Written-By – Spooner*, Steen*	3:10
B3	Cathy's Clone Soprano Saxophone [Uncredited] – Don Van VlietWritten-By – Dornacker*	3:30
B4	This Town Written-By – Hazlewood*	3:15
B5	Pound Of Flesh Written-By – Nagle*, Matthews*	3:00
B6	You're No Fun Written-By – Cotten*, The Tubes, Welnick*	4:51

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – Festival Records Pty. Ltd.
• Recorded At – His Masters Wheels
• Recorded At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
• Recorded At – Record Plant, Sausalito
• Recorded At – Funky Features
• Mixed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
• Mastered At – A&M Studios
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.

Credits

• Art Direction – Roland Young
• Bass – Rick Anderson
• Design – M. Cotten*, P. Prince*
• Design [Design Tech] – Chuck Beeson
• Drums – Prairie Prince
• Engineer [Assistant] – David Raeder, Jim Sintetos, John Henning, Mike Beiriger, W. S. Richardson
• Engineer, Co-producer [Production Assistance] – Don Wood
• Illustration [Front Cover] – P. Prince*
• Keyboards – Vince Welnick
• Lead Guitar, Vocals – Roger Steen
• Lead Guitar, Vocals, Supervised By [Le Gran Fromage] – Bill "The Swami" Spooner*
• Lead Vocals – Fee Waybill
• Management – Bag O' Bucks*, Gary Peterson , Mort Moriarty
• Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
• Mixed By – W.E. Spooner*, Don Wood, John Anthony
• Percussion – Mingo Lewis
• Photography By [Back Cover] – Gerald Kudo, Peter Ogilvie
• Photography By [Liner Photos] – Alvin Meyerowitz, Mort Moriarty
• Producer – John Anthony
• Synthesizer – Michael Cotten
• Vocals – Re Styles

Notes

Recorded at His Masters Wheels, San Francisco, The Record Plant, Los Angeles, The Record Plant, Sausalito, and Funky Features, San Francisco.
Mixed at The Record Plant, Los Angeles.

"Special thanks to: Captain Beefheart, Bernie Krause, Rick Bright and his Sounds Of Delight Orchestra, Rob Lawrence and Harry Duncan".

Mingo Lewis appears courtesy of Mingo Lewis

℗ 1977 A&M Records, Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (A-side run-out, hand-etched): T1 A&M SP5001 RE-1 T3
• Matrix / Runout (B-side run-out, hand-etched): T1 A&M SP5002-T1

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SP-4632	The Tubes	Now ‎(LP, Album, Gre)	A&M Records	SP-4632	US	1977
8T-4632	The Tubes	Now ‎(8-Trk, Album)	A&M Records	8T-4632	US	1977
AMLH 64632	The Tubes	Now ‎(LP, Album)	A&M Records	AMLH 64632	Netherlands	1977
SP-4632	The Tubes	Now ‎(LP, Album, Whi)	A&M Records	SP-4632	US	1977
28565 XOT	The Tubes	Now ‎(LP, Album)	A&M Records	28565 XOT	Netherlands	1977