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Rankine got involved with Pigface after Silverfish opened for their first American tour. When Pigface was in London, Rankine was hanging out with them in the studio and Martin Atkins asked her to sing on a track they were working on. This would become "Hips, Tits, Lips, Power," which according to Rankine is a "total ripoff of a Silverfish song."
"I would like to say how that song came about, because that's pissing me off," she explains ."Silverfish's single "Pig Squeal," with the line "hips, tits, lips, power" had just come out. Me and Mary Byker were screwing around at the beginning of the track going "hips, tits, lips, power." Martin then took that recording to Mark, who had never heard Silverfish before and didn't know anything about it, and he took that line, which he thought was the coolest line in the whole song, and made a song based around that. Martin Atkins knew all about that, and he called the song "Hips, Tits, Lips, Power," and he's since ripped off Silverfish's T-shirts as well. Where it used to say Silverfish it now says Pigface. I'm not friends with Martin Atkins anymore."
"They have no kind of point to them, you know," she adds. "That's why Mark and I recognized this kind of attitude toward music in each other that the other member of Pigface didn't have. I think that Pigface has far more to do with quantity than quality, and that's Martin Atkin's philosophy. Bang it out, tour it to death, he doesn't understand the concept of a phenomenon, and artistic phenomenon. He could have done something really profound with that whole idea. He didn't have this idea of bringing in loads of different people, that was done in Ministry. That's where he ripped off that idea. He could have made something very special out of it, I mean any musical project is only as good as the people involved. He used a lot of talentless fucks, in my opinion. There's a lot of really talentless people who've been involved in that. It could have been a very special thing, but I don't think it's very cool. There have been people who've worked in it who are very talented, but there have been a lot who are not very talented at all. "