Flying Nun, Flying Nun,
Dashing through the glen.
Flying Nun, Flying Nun,
With their merry men/women/undecided individuals.
They took from the rich,
And released lots of albums of fantastic indierock with classicalist punk
influences for the poor,
Flying Nun, Flying Nun, Flying Nun.
Tall Dwarfs - Senile Dementia
Knox and Bathgate’s best album, amongst the many highlights of 3 EPs is this wistful, knowing song. While Knox could compose a song about breakfast cereal ingredients and still have fans and critics drooling, here he’s decided to leave irony at the studio door. A song about the bittersweet experience of losing one’s self to age’s unfeeling march, the narrator manages to comprehend the ultimate fiction of Descarte’s dualistic mind-brain philosophy a little late in life. Plus its got bongos. Ace.
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Bird Nest Roys - Jaffa Boy
Flying Nun had its fare share of “nearly” men. Throughout the 80s and 90s the Northern Hemisphere regularly went to DEFCON 1 awaiting the imminent arrival of The Chills, Straitjacket Fits or The John Paul Sartre Experience in their domestic charts. The Bird Nest Roys, on the other hand, weren’t even nearly “nearly” men. This didn’t stop them releasing a stratospherically good debut album, upon which “Jaffa Boy” can be found. Sounds like early Ride, but in a good way.
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The Gordons - Future Shock
“Angular” is back, apparently, and so The Gordons should fit right in. Except that they’re now called Bailterspace, and they haven’t released an album in three or four years. Oh well. Listen to the title track from their debut EP Future Shock, and grin like a loon. This is spaz-happy double-jointed rock for lovers of solvent-based fun the world over. Alvin Tofler would’ve been proud.
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