Tipsy

 

I'm a bit tipsy from a very strong gin and tonic that I made for myself while digitizing yet more Duke Ellington bootleg radio transcriptions. Just great stuff.

But in the meantime, until I figure out what to eventually do with them

Here's something completely different....
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Nothing La-di-da (1993)

I don't even remember why I picked these up.
 
Probably a combo of it being on Elefant , a Spanish indiepop label and it being cheap enough to take a risk on.

It was worth it.

 

Somer-Runner (1994)

I can't find much right now about this band that called itself the Lovelies from Portsmouth in the UK (not be confused with another band with the same name that hailed from Milwaukee) except the bio on the Elefant page for them which compares them to Wedding Present.

I can sort of hear it, but they remind me somewhat more of Yeah Yeah Noh, personally. (which admittedly is probably a pretty obscure reference for most people, but it's what I think of and you have some Youtubing to do which you probably won't regret.) I think it's in the vocals...)

Name's the Same Redux Plus

Everything old is new again and things are constantly shuffled and recycled.

Thus is it always with band names.

There being a somewhat finite amount of names for things in the English language there's bound to be a bit of overlap.

Which leads us into today's lesson.

We Are the Moles (1968)

One fine day in 1968 a single by a band calling itself the Moles entitled "We Are the Moles pts 1&2" appeared with little fanfare. It was both a fine bit of English psychedelia and a parody of it all in one neat little package and with no information about the band.
Ultimately it was revealed in a roundabout fashion that the perpetrators were in fact the Shulman Brothers of Simon Dupree & the Big Sound under psuedonym.

The year previous they had a minor hit with this song called "Kites"

They seem like nice lads but alas were unable to follow up on their initial minor success and broke up before a second Lp could be finished.

They then proceeded to take revenge upon the world by forming a prog rock band called Gentle Giant because the world had not suffered enough for ignoring them.

What's the New Mary Jane (1992)

Sometime later and on the near opposite side of the world Richard Davies and his compatriots formed a band in Sydney, Australia that likewise to Simon Dupree & the Big Sound decided to call itself the Moles.

Their small discography included this wonderful bit of Australian neo-psychedelice nonsense in the form of a double 7 inch release asking the important question "What's the New Mary Jane?"

Here it is in its original hissy, clicky vinyl format.

Let it flow through you like a nice cold lager laced with psilocybin.