Shopping Trolley - Self Titled - Vinyl Album
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal
Hannibal HNBL1349 1989

The charmingly goofy music on Shopping Trolley's only album has a vague resemblance to Manhattan Transfer -- but British, wildly eccentric, and more than a little stoned. The songs are intelligent and stylish jazz-pop, alternately somber and delirious, performed with crisp harmonies and manic tempos. The vocals are nothing short of stellar, technically brilliant but delivered with enough character that there's no chance you'll mistake this band for anyone else. Anyone born very far from London will be bewildered by at least one lyrical reference in each song, but some references become clear by context and other puzzles are best ignored -- just listen to the trippy music and don't worry about exactly what and who the band is talking about. It isn't deep music -- it's fun and quirky pop, and done very well, too. Shopping Trolley was too odd to make it in the mainstream, but in retrospect it's surprising that the band never spawned a cult audience.

Track Listing
Whistle Song
Moose
Hyde Park Corner
Bring Back the Mary Hopkin Days
Renaissance Man
In the Morning
Graham, Return!
Len Smoothchurch
I'm a Fool, Hardy
Roundabout