AIR BALLOON ROAD A Sarah Compilation 1990

Sarah Records Compilation

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Tracklist

1	–The Orchids (2)	It's Only Obvious
2	–Another Sunny Day	I'm In Love With A Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist
3	–The Sea Urchins	Please Rain Fall
4	–The Field Mice	If You Need Someone
5	–The Orchids (2)	Underneath The Window, Underneath The Sink
6	–St. Christopher	You Deserve More Than A Maybe
7	–The Field Mice	The End Of The Affair
8	–Gentle Despite	Darkest Blue
9	–The Golden Dawn	George Hamilton's Dead
10	–The Field Mice	Sensitive
11	–The Wake	Carbrain
12	–Brighter	I Don't Think It Matters
13	–The Sea Urchins	Pristine Christine
14	–14 Iced Bears	Come Get Me
15	–The Golden Dawn	My Secret World
16	–The Springfields (2)	Sunflower
17	–Another Sunny Day	You Should All Be Murdered
18	–St. Christopher	All Of A Tremble
19	–Action Painting!	These Things Happen
20	–The Poppyheads	Dreamabout
21	–Another Sunny Day	Green
22	–The Orchids (2)	Blue Light
23	–Brighter	Noah's Ark

THE ORCHIDS Striving for the Lazy Perfection 1994

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Artist Biography by Stewart Mason

One of the most prolific bands on Bristol, England's legendary indie pop label Sarah Records, the Orchids were also one of the label's most press-shy outfits. Formed in 1986 in Penilee, Scotland, a suburb of Glasgow, the Orchids took their initial inspiration from some of the city's better-known acts of the time, particularly Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (singer James Hackett sounded more than a little like Cole and was often derided in the U.K. press for that resemblance) and Primal Scream during that band's original '60s pop phase. Hackett, rhythm guitarist Matthew Drummond, lead guitarist John Scally, bassist James Moody, and drummer Chris Quinn fit neatly into the bowl haircut and anorak look of the British indie scene, and their songs, the sort of archetypal late-'80s U.K. guitar pop for which terms like "winsome," "jangly", and "twee" were invented, made them both new pop heroes for a certain audience and an easily dismissible target for others. Press reaction tended to be either laudatory or scathing, with very little in between.

Tracklist 

1	Obsession No. 1	3:56
2	Striving For The Lazy Perfection	3:56
3	The Searching	3:25
4	Welcome To My Curious Heart	4:40
5	Avignon	3:03
6	A Living Ken And Barbie	6:36
7	Beautiful Liar	3:41
8	A Kind Of Eden	4:15
9	Prayers To St. Jude	2:52
10	Lovechild	4:51
11	Give A Little Honey	4:31
12	I've Got To Wake Up To Tell You My Dreams	3:38
13	The Perfect Reprise	1:17
14	I Was Just Dreaming	3:25
15	Between Sleeping And Waking	3:09