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No Talking.

Just posting.

Google is your friend.

The Greatest Time ep (1995)

the Mad Scene

Relentless (1990)

Men & Volts

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.

The Drill Remains the Same

I should really consider eating something before I start posting because I inevitably realize that I'm hungry and haven't eaten the moment I start typing and I'd have something more interesting to talk about as a lead-in to the rest of this nonsense.

Oh well.
A pattern is a pattern.
(and the beans and wienies in the fridge merely await a reheat for consumption.)

I also am aware that the previous post was the 666th one I've done which is scary in more than one way.

A Girl For All Seasons (1999)

Following up from the previous post of sweet pop music with the initial appearance by Allen Clapp and the gang calling themselves the Orange Peels.
It's on the Bus Stop Label so you know I would have picked it up regardless.

And now everybody's a winner.

Something Strange (1993)

The Non-Stop Kazoo Organization is a tad bit more mysterious than you might expect.

This one even confuses the folks over at Cloudberry Cake who are usually really good about digging up the dirt on these kinds of twee indiepop wonders.

No matter. The main dude involved is named Jacques Speyser and it's French. He's involved with a number of other bands also on the Cornflakes Zoo label.

The vagueness of it all should just make it more appealing which is not even particularly necessary since it's more than appealing enough on its own.

So there.