Tracklist
1 |
Nazz IV
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2:45
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2 |
I Wanna Be Your Dog
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2:56
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3 |
The Best Things In Life Are Free
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3:02
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4 |
Little League
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1:09
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5 |
Go Dorothy Go (Do The Bible)
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3:04
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6 |
Sweep
|
0:38
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7 |
Heart Full Of Soul
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3:25
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8 |
Batwa Pygmy Chorus
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2:24
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9 |
Crossfire/Tea For Two/Cha Cha Cha
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5:32
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10 |
I Don't Care
|
2:49
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11 |
Go Commercial
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3:40
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12 |
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (Revisited)
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3:07
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13 |
Back In The U.S.S.R.
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4:28
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14 |
Go To Hell
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4:40
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15 |
And Many, Many More
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4:11
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16 |
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
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2:26
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17 |
Too Much Talk
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3:46
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18 |
Double-Talking Heads
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0:34
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19 |
Sex Bomb
|
5:49
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20 |
Robot
|
3:02
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21 |
The Eighth Sea
|
3:00
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22 |
The End Of Tradition
|
6:45
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23 |
Fireman/Spaceman
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2:39 |
From Trouser Press
SPACE NEGROS
Maximum Control From Moment to Moment EP (Sounds Interesting) 1979
The Space Negros Go Commercial EP (Arf Arf) 1980 + 1984
Have a Lousy Xmas EP (Jingle Jungle/Arf Arf) 1981
The
Space Negros Do Generic Ethnic Muzak Versions of All Your Favorite
Underground Punk/Psychedelic Songs from the Sixties (Arf Arf) 1987
FAMILY FUN
Record (Eat) 1981
Before there was a Mission of Burma, two of its future
founders played in this Boston group, alongside
keyboardist/producer Erik Lindgren, a future member of
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. The 7-inch
Maximum
Contrast contains six offbeat offerings of experimental
synth'n'tape tricks.
That same year, the original Space Negros fell apart;
Go Commercial (shades of the Residents), another
7-inch with eight songs, is actually a Lindgren solo
record. His upbeat pop songs — sort of a synth-happy
R. Stevie Moore — are witty and sophisticated. The
B-side includes a cover of the Yardbirds' "Happenings Ten
Years Time Ago." The 1980 rendition of that classic took a
Kraftwerkian electro-pop approach; the record's 1984
reissue replaced it with a heavy metal guitar version.
Have a Lousy Xmas offers a topical foursome of
laughable ill cheer originals (e.g., "Jingle Hell") played
by Lindgren with Space Negro alumnus Roger Miller and
others.
The windily titled album, recorded between 1981 and 1985
with a large number of instrumental contributors, consists
entirely of exotically idiomatic (raga, bluegrass, Balkan,
etc.) easy-listening instrumental interpretations of songs
originally popularized by such venerable musical
organizations as the Seeds, Who, Easybeats, Balloon Farm,
Smoke, 13th Floor Elevators, Hotlegs and Tomorrow. Not as
conceptually explosive as the Residents perhaps, but
delightful.
Flipper may have a gripe against Public Image for
lifting their concept of a generic record sleeve, but
Family Fun — a Lindgren-led quartet — has them
both beat. The cover of their 1981 EP (one side of four
electro-pop tunes with Sara Goodman providing folkie vocals
over the slightly off-kilter backing and a side of
instrumental "EZ Listening Music") mimics the no-name
products in grocery stores by carrying only the
word "RECORD" stenciled over "Net Wt. 4.9 Oz. (45 RPM.) 135
g."
[Ira Robbins]