Surprise Surprise Surprise.

Yes Virginia, there is a lot of records to be posted...

Let's go back Down Under, shall we?

Seaside Compilation (1991)

Here's that vaguely hinted at compilation 7" in the previous post and the only remaining Moles song from their original Australian Seaside output along with a couple of skull splitters from aptly named fellow Sydney bands Headache and Brokenhead.

I do not in the slightest regret shelling out fifty cents for this. It only makes me love it more



Say...as long as we're in the area let's travel forward in time and 909 km SW to see what's up in Melbourne

Melbourne Holiday (1998)

I won't type the tracklist out because it's easily visible in the pictures.

Cat's Miaow stuff was previously posted in 2015. Super Falling Star (who will appear here probably years from now if I keep this up at this pace.) do a version of  "Love is Blue" originally a mellow instrumental tune made famous by Paul Mauriat & his Orchestra in 1968.

Soak in it.

Eh, Have Some More

I'm feeling beneficent.

Untune the Sky (1999)

The Moles redux.
They released their first full length "Untune the Sky" in 1991 on Seaside.

This is a compilation put together by Flydaddy Records in 1999 that compiled their output on Seaside in one lovely compact digital package for your convenience. Previously Flydaddy had put out the second Lp "Instinct" in 1994, which I swore I had at one point, but can't locate and I think I may have given it to somebody many years ago.

So in addition to the just previously posted double 7" in pristine digital order there is the original "Untune the Sky" an additional single and 12" included here.

It lacks only a song on a Seaside compilation 7" from 1991 to be complete.
If only there was a particular day of the month when compilations...

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.

Where were you when the stars went out?

I'm going to a work related conference in a couple of days. I should be doing laundry. But I'd rather not to be honest. I am posting Godstar instead.

Brightest Star (1992)


Well, two of their seven inches anyway.

Godstar. One of the many bands featuring Nic Dalton who was also in the Lemonheads which some older folks and maybe an occasional "Classic Rock" station or two may remember from the 90's. It's only a matter of time before State Fairs and casino gigs become Evan Dando's future. But this isn't about him.

Godstar took their name from a 1985 song by Psychic TV about Brian Jones from before Psychic TV got all disco ravey and Genesis P-Orridge transitioned into the person they are today. (I saw them a couple years after this came out. I was appalled.)

This single is pretty straightforward jangly mid-fi pop. It's on the Bus Stop label (in the US anyway)
"Kitchen" would be covered by the Lemonheads on the same Lp that gave them their hit, but I can't honestly say it was an improvement over the original.

Four Seventy ep (1994)

The other one on Bus Stop is more of the same. Not quite lo-fi recordings of pop songs with a distinct antipodean vibe about them.
I quite like it.

You should like it too.

That's not a suggestion.

The last one of these

[10/12/17- Julian Knowles of Even as We Speak had reported a previous post of another pair of singles to Mediafire. He must have missed this one. I'm going to remove the link anyway.

And once again, I make this cruddy blog out of love and a desire for others to hear things they might not otherwise get to. If you're unhappy with that let me know and I'll gladly take it down.

If you're interested in more Even as We Speak.

If you're looking for more of their out of print items.]



Back again, I see.

The third of four Sarah singles by Even as We Speak that I've got.

Blue Eyes Deceiving Me (1993)

Try it. You'll like it. I have nothing more to add


Meanwhile an ocean away:

 

the Extra Glenns (1993)

This is a collaboration between lo-fi home recording king John Darnielle better known to record as the Mountain Goats and another lo-fi hero Franklin Bruno (of Nothing Painted Blue fame) making some lo-fi recordings as the Extra Glenns.

 Now you're up to speed.

From a Land Down Under

[10/12/17 - So I got a notice from Mediafire that Julian Knowles of Even as We Speak had reported this post so I'm removing the links.

And as it says in the sidebar here. I post this stuff out of love. It's things I like and want to share so other people can hear it, but if anybody responsible for the music in question is unhappy,  just let me know and I'll gladly take it down. 
For the most part the few times in the past where someone who's band it was stumbled upon my cruddy blog they were glad somebody was still listening a couple of decades later. But everybody is different and I respect that.

So if you're interested in Even as We Speak follow the link to their website and get new stuff from them. (Not these though. They're long out of print. Try Discogs)]






It's still that same day in March I was talking about several posts ago.
My jaw still hurts.

Nothing Ever Happens (1990)

The band is Even as We Speak.  This was their first seven inch for Sarah Records. It incorporates their previously released 1989 "Goes So Slow" 7" on Phantom and adds a couple more songs. "Blue Suburban Skies" and a cover of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" which had been a Top 10 hit in Australia back in 1986.

That should be enough to go on.

 

One Step Forward (1991)

Their next release. Also on Sarah Records.  It's another record by Even as We Speak. Yep. That's what it is. (see above for more info)