Tracklist
1. A HOUSE The Start
2. LILYS Day of the Monkey
3. GREEN APPLE QUICK STEP Tangled
4. PINEBENDER So, This is Your Apartment
5. THE CRY Twist of Fate
6. STEINBECKS Settlement
7. BARRY BLACK Mighty Fields of Tobacco
8. THE PRUDES Peace is Milk
9. THE NEW GRAND Burn All the Biddies
10. HEATMISER Just a Little Prick
11. DENZIL Running This Family
12. SLIPSTREAM Sweet Mercy
13. MYSTERY MACHINE Shaky Ground
14. BASH & POP Never Aim to Please
15. BEDHEAD Smoke
16. ORANGE CAKE MIX Valentine Love Affair
17. DUMP Clarity
18. THOUSAND YARD STARE O-O Aet
19. SUN CITY GIRLS Radar 1941
20. THE LA'S Timeless Melody
21. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS Obsessed with Falling
22. PULLEY If
23. FLYING SAUCER ATTACK Always
24. 60 CYCLE No New Tale to Tell
25. NOISE ADDICT I Wish I Was Him
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Artist Biography
by Steve Leggett
An eclectic mix of every musical style one can think
of -- demented surf, Indian and Asian improvisation, free-form noise,
fractured folk, you name it -- with doses of kabuki theater, shadow
puppetry, and maverick guerilla stagecraft thrown in, the
avant-everything Sun City Girls
are a fiercely independent and experimental trio whose only credo seems
to be to continually stretch boundaries while remaining amazingly
inclusive, a process that has led to a dizzying array of vinyl,
cassette, and CD releases in the past 20 years. Forming in Phoenix, AZ, Sun City Girls first performed under that name in 1981, and after morphing into the short-lived Paris 1942 (with former Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker), the group emerged as a trio with brothers Alan Bishop and Richard Bishop and percussionist Charles Gocher in 1982. SCG released their first album, Sun City Girls,
in 1984 on Placebo Records, going on to release nearly 30 official
albums since then, along with countless limited-edition vinyl, cassette,
and CD-R projects, making the group's discography almost impossible to
completely document. Throughout its history SCG
has remained a challenging, unpredictable, and eclectic musical unit,
operating outside the commercially driven aspirations of the mainstream
recording industry, and the group has become somewhat of a beacon to
independent musicians and artists everywhere. Relocating to Seattle in
the early '90s, Sun City Girls established their own label, Abduction Records, as well as an archival imprint, Sublime Frequencies.
They ceased to function as a band when Charles Gocher
passed away in 2007, though the Bishop Brothers have remained
active--separately and together--issuing recordings under their own and
different names.
Tracklist
1 |
Blue Mamba |
3:06
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2 |
Tarmac 23 |
1:23
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3 |
Esoterica Of Abyssynia |
3:13
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4 |
Space Prophet Dogon |
7:02
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5 |
The Shining Path |
2:56
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6 |
The Flower |
3:13
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7 |
Cafe Batik |
2:41
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8 |
Radar 1941 |
3:44
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9 |
Papa Legba |
2:12
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10 |
The Vinegar Stroke |
1:53
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11 |
Burial In The Sky |
3:48 |