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Happy Flowers – Flowers On 45 : The Homestead Singles – Cassette
What initially would have been just that, a collection of Happy Flowers’ four 7″ singles on Homestead, became something more when, as the band said in the entertaining liner notes, “we were told that there wouldn’t be a whole lot of music on if we didn’t pad it out.” The end result is a completely all-over-the-place (and all the more entertaining for it) overview of the bandmembers’ earlier musical experiences, making it as good a place as any for newcomers to the duo’s unique approach.
Kicking off with the brilliantly rocking “They Cleaned My Cut out With a Wire Brush,” the actual singles themselves are various explorations in Happy Flowers’ aesthetic of “Five-year-old’s shrill complaints meet devious genre takes and satires.”
Typical song titles: “I Ate Something out of the Medicine Cabinet,” “Mom and Dad Like the Baby More Than Me,” “Charlie Got a Haircut,” and “These Peas Are So Green.” Special kudos to the classic hard rock badassness of “Call Me Pudge,” which has to be heard to be believed. A slew of rarities and unreleased cuts follow, including an intentional moronic set of live covers. Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Bring on the Dancing Horses” only has the title in common with the one-minute keyboard/drum machine/noise weirdness, while the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and Nazareth’s “Love Hurts” are left for dead.
The final 12 songs explore the roots of Happy Flowers, and if nothing else, are as bizarrely unique as the band’s own work, there’s a slew of stuff that still works in a weird, goof-off way.
Homestead Records
Brand new, never played and still in the factory plastic
Track Listing
1. They Cleaned My Cut Out With A Wire Brush
2. Just Wait Till I’m Bigger Than You
3. My Mother Is A Fish
4. BB Gun
5. Charlie Got A Haircut
6. I Ate Something Out Of The Medicine Cabinet
7. Call Me Pudge
8. Call Me Pudge (Live)
9. German Folk Song (Live)
10. My Head’s On Fire
11. Mom And Dad Like The Baby More Than Me
12. Ruckwerts Essen Jetzt
13. I Dropped My Ice Cream Cone
14. These Peas Are So Green
15. Bring On The Dancing Horses
16. Penny Lane
17. Reagonomics
18. Love Hurts
19. I Wanna BB Gun (And Some Glass Eyes)
20. I’m First On The Swing
21. The Big Picture
22. Hitting
23. The Butcher
24. Loser City
25. Fish (I Like…)
26. Joe Hates Work
27. Home In The Jungle
28. Avsnit Fyra
29. Fleekor
30. Tak So Meeka
31. Mrs. Butcher
32. Empty Rhetoric
33. Press The Bar
34. The Strange House
35. Critical Toast
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