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01. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Love Comes Slowly Now
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02. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Nothing Going Down
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03. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Carousel
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04. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Sweet Pea
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05. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Rosicrucinn Lovers
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06. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Marshall Sign
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07. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Garymoy
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08. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Prince of Thieves
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09. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Carousel (Live)
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10. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Your Williams Baby
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11. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Lucy in Her Pink Jacket
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12. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Holy Holy Blue
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01. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Nothing Going Down At All
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02. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Catnip
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03. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Counting Stars
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04. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Holy Holy Blue (rehearsal)
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05. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Carousel (studio version)
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06. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Lucy in Her Pink Jacket (studio version)
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07. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Catherine Is Only Listening
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08. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Prince of Thieves (bonus)
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09. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Your Williams Baby (bonus)
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10. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Born in the Dark, Dear
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11. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Holy Holy Blue (original version)
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12. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Nothing Going Down At All (studio version)
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13. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - No One Will Ever Know (with Merlene Chambers)
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ARTIST
GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS, THE
TITLE
Eyes Rind As If Beggars
FORMAT
2CD
LABEL
BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS/FIRE RECORDS
CATALOG #
BONFIRE 001CD
BONFIRE 001CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/19/2013
Fire Records & Bo Weavil Recordings are extremely proud to present the long-awaited re-issue of
The Garbage & The Flowers
' classic double album
Eyes Rind As If Beggars
, a sprawling collection of fragile melodies, abrasive improvisations and velvet voices. The story of
The Garbage & The Flowers
, by some measure Wellington's most brilliant pop band, is equal parts classic underground rock'n'roll and a hazy ramshackle history pockmarked with bursts of genius and stoned rehearsals. Rare is it for any band to garner so much underground acclaim while leading such a nebulous existence. A small handful of releases, compilation appearances and few live shows make for a curious stop/start history. Tension can produce the goods and tension was what watered The Garbage & The Flowers.
Yuri Frusin
(guitar, songwriting) and
Helen Johnstone
(viola, vocals, now bass) met in their teens sometime in the 1980s. Naming themselves after a line in
Leonard Cohen
's "Suzanne" and taking cues from
The Velvet Underground
, the band has existed in some shape or form since, with help from
Paul Yates
,
Heath Cozens
,
Torben Tilly
,
Rachel Davies
,
Kristen Wineera
, and
Stuart Porter
. When asked recently about the group, original drummer Tilly offers a particularly apt description of their sound: "What I loved about the music we created is that it sounded like it had come from somewhere faraway, that it had traveled a lot of distance and gathered some dust and debris along the way. That said, despite its unhinged qualities we were never really a noise-band even though some strange and beautiful electromagnetic noise would make it to tape. Most of the time it was all deeply rooted in a song." This, of course, is one of the greatest parts of The Garbage & The Flowers' charm. They really did seem out there, on their own, absorbed in their own world, dropping gem after gem of fractal noise-pop onto slowly corroding four-track cassettes, willing these songs into existence just long enough to let them catch breath and glide away from the speakers for a few moments, before Frusin and Johnstone would knuckle down and write yet more beautiful melodies for beautiful losers. This is a rock'n'roll classic which will whip the wigs off all the crystalline clowns today. Includes a bonus full-length disc of additional material (compilation tracks, previously unreleased material, etc.), plus a 24-page booklet with notes and photos.
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