We've spoken before a few times of our love for the sadly neglected genius of Microdisney.
We shan't speak of it again. Aside from referring to the fact that we've spoken before a few times of our love for the sadly neglected genius of Microdisney!
Enough gibberish! Knee jerk Knee jerk Knee jerk Knee jerk!!We've posted quite a few Microdisney albums before. Check em out HERE!
Here are some more!
A very good resource on the band can be found here; bubbyworld.com
witchseason - an excellent music blog -has very kindly made these great LPs available! Thanks very much Mr Witchseason - may your first camel be a dromedary!
aka, Love your enemies : Microdisney (1982-1984)
Greatest album title ever?! Yap!!
This is a compilation of tracks from the four eary singles Microdisney made before signing to Indie label Beggars Banquet.
It was later re-released under the more prosaic title 'Love Your Enemies'!
This was a compilation of the first two singles and several unreleased songs from their early time in Cork.
Of the previously unreleased songs, three tracks are instrumentals- a very pleasant 'Michael Murphy' and equally tuneful 'Patrick Moore Says You Can't Sleep Here'. Both stand on their own two feet and show Sean O'Hagan's ability to craft a stand-alone piece of music. The other instrumental 'Pretoria Quickstep' is much more eerie with the vinyl version looping continuously on the run off groove .
'Love Your Enemies' was the only previously unreleased song to have vocals. A heavily sarcastic song fits perfectly with the original title and leaves people in little doubt as to where Microdisney stood on forgiveness of people still engaged in atrocities. Here was an sign that Microdisney were much more than just a pleasant pop band.
Being a compilation. the songs are more mix and match than its predecessor. Some songs maintain the atmospheric beauty of the first LP, others are much more disjointed. Despite this, and despite being an LP born out of the need to release something it still holds up in its own right.
Holding on, holding on
from your birth to the day you die
Let it rest, let it slide
One day you'll see the face of christ ....
We have nothing decent we can dream about
Not one thing that's better than a coward's death
Tracklisting
01 - Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost
02 - Michael Murphy
03 - Love Your Enemies
04 - Fiction Land
05 - Pink Skinned Man
06 - Patrick Moore Says You Can't Sleep Here
07 - Hello Rascals
08 - Pretoria Quickstep
The first proper Microdisney album, after having released a few critically acclaimed singles on smaller labels.
After relocating to London a year before, they signed to famous Indie label Rough Trade and managed to get the services of John Porter (producer of The Smiths) to produce this rather good album.
swore they would save the world by the next Friday night
but when Friday came they were in a bar
looking sad as I spoke to them
Tracklisting
01 - Idea
02 - A Few Kisses
03 - Escalator In The Rain
04 - Dolly
05 - Dreaming Drains
06 - I'll Be A Gentleman
07 - Moon
08 - Sun
09 - Sleepless
10 - Come On Over And Cry
11 - This Liberal Love
12 - Before Famine
13 - Everybody Is Dead
Note: track 1 may be truncated. There's a full version at;
http://rapidshare.com/files/4778614/01_-_Idea.mp3
Microdisney - The Clock Comes Down The Stairs (1986)This shows a marked maturity in songwriting and performances.
I still own the begging bowl,
Bottom of the honour roll,
To take your moods and not complain,
And beg to serve you all my days.
Chained to the place,
Where we used to lay,
Chained by your rage,
Chained on to me.
You send away the beggar,
And you still taste defeat.
Tracklisting
01 - Horse Overboard
02 - Birthday Girl
03 - Past
04 - Humane
05 - Are You Happy
06 - Loftholdingswood
07 - Genius
08 - Begging Bowl
09 - A Friend With A Big Mouth
10 - Goodbye It's 1987
11 - And
Cathal's lyric writing is getting even better - more powerful, more incisive.
It's the guessing game with
those waves of flame and
sick winter for a thousand years.
Me and my ex-lover will accept each other,
help reap the dead harvest,
town to town.
Tracklisting
01 - Town To Town
02 - Angels
03 - Our Children
04 - Mrs. Simpson
05 - Hey Hey Sam
06 - Give Me All Your Clothes
07 - Armadillo Man
08 - Bullwhip Road
09 - And He Descended Into Hell
10 - Rack
11 - Big Sleeping House
12 - People Just Want To Dream
There's a lovely "tribute" to Boy George in the excellent opening track!
Drags his face all around the path.
He only had blank lines to say,
Although he said them in a witty and stylish way.
Tracklisting
01 - Singer's Hampstead Home
02 - High & Dry
03 - Send Herman Home
04 - Ambulance For One
05 - Soul Boy
06 - Back to the Old Town
07 - United Colours
08 - Gale Force Wind
09 - Herr Direktor
10 - Bluerings
Some great stuff in here!
This is a different version from the CD release of this album already posted by us HERE!
witchseason says:
These tracks are ripped from my old cassettes of Pee sessions and of poor-ish quality. There was a 'Microdisney Peel sessions' CD (of which this picture shows the sleeve), but this isn't it - I don't have it and have no idea where to get it from.
While I was away at sea
With boilers, cargo and gin,
My wife still lived alone,
In a cottage by the lake,
Each night I kissed her face in the photograph,
I dreamed of the happy day that I'd be moving back.
Can we sleep alone?
We can't sleep alone.
One horse overboard.
Tracklisting
01 - This Liberal Love
02 - Escalator In The Rain
03 - Dreaming Drains
04 - Dolly
05 - Everybody Is Dead
01 - Teddy Dogs
02 - Dear Rosemary
03 - 464
01 - Birthday Girl
02 - Genius
03 - Horse Overboard
04 - Loftholdingswood
05 - A Friend With A Big Mouth
06 - Goodbye It's 1987
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2 comments:
Wonderful post. If I didn't have all this already, I'd be On It! Thanks for spreading the Microdisney word.
Brilliant band.
Should have been massive.
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