a sample of a different character from the same film, Harry Flowers. The song's lyrics describe a gangster having a trip. "Fat Lady Wrestlers" is representative of the life style the band had at the time, as Ryder explained: "We were very much living like crazy hustlers". "Performance" is written from the perspective of Chas, another character from the film of the same name. Similar to "Moving in With", it also references Ryder's place in Boothsdown, where they would stash valuable items such as drugs or clothes. "Brain Dead" opens with Ryder quoting a line from the film Gimme Shelter (1970): "You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous!" With "Wrote for Luck", the band tried to write a song that could be played at the Haçienda. Paul Ryder unsuccessfully tried to play sequenced basslines, which he heard in the Chicago house music that Pickering was playing at the club, on his bass guitar. Keyboardist Paul Davis tried to play the synth part from "Two Tribes" (1984) by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, while Whelan had a go at emulating "Running Up That Hill" again. Day later contributed his guitar part, while Shaun Ryder added the song's hook, "Higher than high high", based on his mental state at the time. It marked the first time Ryder attempted to write a song about the same topic, namely a heroin drug deal gone wrong. One of its lines is dialogue directly taken from the film Stardust (1974). Ryder said "Bring a Friend" is the closest track to a love song on the album, with many of its lines taken from a pornographic magazine he had read while in Amsterdam. "Do It Better" was initially called "E"; it is centred around a guitar part and Ryder ad-libbing around the phrase "on one", which referred to being high on ecstasy. The album's closing track "Lazy Itis" has Can-esque drumming patterns and borrows a lyric from "Ticket to Ride" (1965) by the Beatles, resulting in a writing credit between Happy Mondays and Lennon–McCartney. Its title phrase was a word the Ryders' grandmother used to say. For the single version of the track, Ryder decided to include lyrics from "Gonna Make You a Star" (1974) by David Essex. Release Bummed was released in November 1988. The cover art sees an image of Ryder's face painted over in garish colours, which Central Station Design did as part of a series of