the club nights that the members visited, though the band was unable to bring that influence into their songs as he felt they were not competent musicians. Ryder attributed the various pauses in the songs as they attempted to emulate the music of the Doors. In hindsight, he said it could be viewed as latter-day indie rock: "At the time, indie [rock] meant, tight, fast, neat music" while the band sought to have a "really spacious, trippy sound". During their live performances, the members would unintentionally play songs for longer than necessary, as Ryder said they "could never get the timing right to end a song together". As a result of this, he would have to freestyle lyrics over these extended versions; an unintended consequence of this meant new songs would evolve out of the freestyles. They would record the shows and work on material during practice sessions. The album's title is partially the result of Little Mini. He visited them, took one look, and exclaimed: "Fucking hell, twenty-four hour party people, plastic people smile a white out..." The eventual full title consisted of various references: Squirrel is the nickname for Davis' mother, G-Man alludes to Bez's father being a cop, Twenty Four Hour Party People is a synonym for the band, and Plastic Face and Carnt Smile were two truncated Salford expressions meaning "miserable bastards". Ryder considered the sentence a joke, before liking the sound of it as an album title, as the expression "[k]ind of summed the whole thing up". Songs Ryder said the majority of the song' lyrics were crafted together "like short stories from The Twilight Zone". The title of "Kuff Dam" comes from a pornographic magazine, titled Mad Fuck, that Ryder had read some years prior, and had decided to spell it backwards. Ryder saw it as an attempt to find his voice, something he felt was more important than trying to fit a story into a song. "Tart Tart" is partially inspired about a girl named Dinah that dealt drugs and would give Bez and Ryder a place to stay. A couple of lines address her death, which was the result of a brain hemorrhage. The song is also about the AIDS crisis that was occurring in the UK, and Martin Hannett's character. Despite Ryder having not met him, he learned about Hannett through Sumner, who would tell Ryder stories regarding him. "'Enery" tackles