Fireflies - Covers

Just some fantastic covers here done extraordinarily well. Covers from Joy Division to Neil Young to the Ramones. There is one out of the ordinary cover from The Cat's Miaow, Just unbelievable simplicity at its finest:


I'm sorry, it's not your fault at all
I have nothing that won't disappoint you
You describe me as if I'm hollow inside
The sad thing is I think you might be right

How do you know?
When I say goodbye that I'm not lying
How do you know?
When I say goodbye that I'm not lying

Okay, you know that I avoid you
Because it just becomes an awkward silence
You describe me as if I'm hollow inside
The sad thing is I think you might be right

How do you know?
When I say goodbye that I'm not lying
How do you know?
When I say goodbye that I'm not lying 


I Just recently wrote those lyrics down on a yellow legal-pad with my typewriter where the M didn't work, so i used r & n to suffice: rn--sort of works, good enough at least. Anyways i gave her this note, folded 8 different times around a small bar of soap, Motel 6 facial & bath soap, with a rubber band holding it together. Well...it didn't go as well as I'd planed, not in the least bit. she was indifferent for the rest of the night, she kept her distance. She wouldn't even look me in the eye, but anyway, I should just stop bitching about it and do something, and at this point I think my doing so is doing nothing at all. good night.

Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land

A 1987 release on Fire Records from the Scottish Indie Pop band the Close Lobsters.

FOXHEADS STALK THIS LAND

Brighter - Laurel

Flawless, more-or-less. 1991. Sarah Records.

Laurel [1991]

The Baptist Generals - No Silver/No Gold

A swell band from down in Texas. Sub Pop sure knows how to pick 'em. Take a plunge into the strange and make sure you do so nice and loud as Chris Flemmon's nasally vocals and the somber, country twang of acoustic frenzy and hillbilly sonata give your chances of having whomever listening in from across the walls tell you to "shut-off that racket." it was put quite nicely in the 2003 album review on iTunes that you are very well listening to the "audio equivalent to vinegar." Deeply personal and twisted, Flemmon's puts his heart into every single one of these songs, which make this whole indie rock/pop venture seem like an experiment.


Sub Pop Records [2003]

1. Ay Distress
2. Alcohol (Turn And Fall)
3. 500 League Reunion March (In A Plymouth)
4. Going Back Song
5. Creeper
6. Preservatine
7. On A Wheel
8. Feds On The Highway
9. Diminished
10. Burning
11. St. Christopher's Medal
12. Going Back Song (4-Track Solo)

Download: No Silver/No Gold

Acid House Kings - Pop, Look & Listen!

A lost Jangle Pop gem from, Swedish, twee-pop trio, the Acid House Kings, who formed in 1991 and made their first full-length pop album a year later in 1992 on the German label Marsh Marigold. I thought I'd post this album in spirit of the season thanks to track 6, Christmas, which also happens to be one of the more boring and drab songs on the line-up. But anyways here it is, a twelve song sing along cornerstone for any Jangle Pop fan.


TRACKS:
1. Thirteen again
2. I'll still be there
3. Your favourite flower
4. Say yes
5. Please be
6. Christmas
7. Song of the colour red
8. Mrs. Green
9. Times
10. Autumn afternoon
11. Adorable
12. Sadly, I'm never loved


RELEASE DATE: 1992
LABEL: Marsh Marigold Records
Pop, Look & Listen! [1992]

Even As We Speak - Nothing Ever Happens EP

1990's 7" EP, Nothing Ever Happens EP is a tremendous 5 song contribution to early 90's Indie Pop and to the Sarah Label as a whole. 5 songs that display Matthew Love's (vocals, guitar) striking songwriting talent and musical range and ability. A popy version of New Order's Bizzarre Love Triangle is a nice break off from a song that's been beaten to death with electronic and post-punk remixes you hear over and over. Nothing Ever Happens EP is a must have for any Sarah lover or an excellent introduction to the Sarah Label for those who are just hearing its sound for the first time.

Year: 1990
Label: Sarah Records
Album: 7" EP, Sarah 037


TRACKLISTING:
1. Goes So Slow 2:27
2. Blue Suburban Skies 2:26
3. Bizzarre Love Trianlge 1:55
4. Nothing Ever Happens 1:26
5. A Stranger Calls 1:50

Sarah 037

Harper Lee - Everything's Going To Be OK

The former members of Sarah Records's Brighter team-up with Matinee Records and make one hell of a second album. Keeping with their same broken-hearted sound, Keris Howard (vocals, guitar, and keyboard) and Laura Bridge (drums, guitar, and piano), make a solid compilation of Post-Sarah [Records] Pop ballads with jangly, Guitar Pop hooks that will get stuck in your head all day long.
Excellent example of the contemporary, Matinee sound. Don't miss it.

Year: 2002
Label: Matinee Recordings

Everything's Going to be OK

The Field Mice - Skywriting + Singles

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One of the most important Indie Pop bands that on the Sarah Label in the late 80's and early 90's, The Field Mice, sadly goes utterly unnoticed within the mainstream history of British Indie Pop. LTM put together three, two disc remastered albums plus extra singles, to put The Field Mice's lengthy array of out-of-print, pop gems back into the eyes and ears of Indie Pop fans. 21 songs taken from 1989's EP So Said Kay - Sarah 38 and 1990's, two disc, album The Autumn Store Pt. 1 & 2 - Sarah 24 & 25 make up the extra 15 songs that weren't on the original 6 song, Skywriting album. An excellent collection of fluffy, melancholy pop songs that is a perfect cross-section into the jangly, neat and clean pop sound of the legendary Sarah Records and the similar bands on the label. The Field Mice were arguably the most popular and best-selling band of the many that started out on the Sarah Records Label catalogue though their fame is minimal compared to the hundreds of other Indie Pop bands that came out of Bristol, England in 1988 (Surrey, England to be exact). The Field Mice disbanded in an onstage quarrel in November of 1991 only to play one last farewell gig in London. Wratten, Davies, and Dobson later reunited to form the Northern Picture Library and Trembling Blue Stars which were both fantastic bands in themselves. 

TRACKLIST:
Disc 1
01 - Triangle
02 - Canada
03 - Clearer
04 - It Isn't Forever
05 - Below The Stars
06 - Humblebee
07 - Landmark
08 - Quicksilver
09 - Holland Street
10 - Indian Ocean
11 - So Said Kay

Disc 2
01 - If You Need Someone
02 - The World To Me
03 - Song Six
04 - Anyone Else Isn't You
05 - Bleak
06 - I Thought Wrong
07 - Right As Rain
08 - A Heart Disease Called Love
09 - This Is Not Here (1998)
10 - Other Galaxies

Disc 1

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Disc 2

The Magnetic Fields - The Charm of the Highway Strip

In case one is about to take a road trip through the dark.  2:55 AM is arguably the best time to drive from Phoenix, AZ to L.A., California. Role your windows down and drive 86 m.p.h. while listening to this album two times over. "Time, measured in dotted yellow lines."

The Charm of the Highway Strip