Lubricate Your Living Room (subtitled on some editions as Background Music for Now People) is the debut studio album by Scottish post-punk band The Fire Engines.

It was in the pub and at Last's flat that the gathered people exchanged ideas which ultimately provided the impetus for a chain of Fire Engines releases which were released in sleeves featuring household objects and titled in parody to the langue of modern advertising, namely Lubricate Your Living Room and "Get Up and Use Me" and "New Things in Cartoons" singles.

[4] The album is almost entirely instrumental,[5] with most tracks containing no vocals, and those that do, such as "Discord",[1] only featuring Henderson's yelps and screams buried under a "barbed-wire tangle" of guitar, bass and drums.

[5] "Discord", the longest track on the album, is based around a riff which progresses through the unusual combination of B-natural, E-flat and F-sharp notes, which are repeatedly played in a rigidly-defined cadence that makes them danceable.

"[2] Reekie felt that, upon release, the album "sounded like nothing else; Fire Engines were then occupying a completely different hemisphere to that of their contemporaries.