I declare today the international Happy Flowers Day. Why? Well, these 2 guys made 'songs' that were quite unique. Yeah, they used guitars and drums but they made a hell of a noise! And the vocals? Well, imagine what it would be like to hear 2 completely screwed up children shouting about every problem they had over all the noise! I loved this band, who were probably only played on the John Peel show in Britain. They are from Virginia, USA and called themselves Mr. Anus and Mr. Horribly Charred Infant. I contacted the latter and he said it would be fine to put their tracks on here. Now, I have quite a few of them, some good quality audio, others reasonable. But here's a list of just some of my favourites.
Make the Cat Stop Talking to Me (maybe the first one I heard by them)
My Frisbee Went Under The Lawnmower
Left Behind
If It Was Broken, You'd Be Screaming
I Dropped My Ice Cream Cone
Mom, I Gave the Cat Some Acid
Let's Eat the Baby
and to finish, a live cover by my old band, Pink Fluffy Suicide, in 1992 of
Mom and Dad Like the Baby More Than Me
(That's me singing and playing the lead guitar)
Find out the whole story of the Happy Flowers here and hear 4 more songs
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We will never forget you
This is a blog to hear many classic indie songs (usually first heard by me on the John Peel radio show) which passed by largely unknown. Some of the tracks have less than perfect sound quality as I transferred them from my old cassettes to the PC. I'll include any information I know about the bands and the songs. I will put some music on here again but it may not be that often. I intend to give you stuff that you can't get anywhere any more.
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Most of the songs here are more than 10 years old and didn't sell many copies when they were released. If you have an issue about whether they should be allowed to be downloaded, think about the fact that no money is being made from them here, they are linked to because I think they shouldn't have got lost in time and that people may be hearing them for the first time here.
However, if the song is being released in some way and you are currently earning revenue from this particular version then email me with proof and I'll remove it.
If you can't give me a good reason why they should be removed (and I'm talking ethically and morally here) then please just let them be.
3 comments:
Jesus.
Your band sounded cool, though.
Thanks very much. And also thanks for the first comment of this month... 17th of July...
the first peel show i ever heard had happy flowers in session (around 1990 i would guess) and i think i knew straight away i'd stumbled across something pretty special. anyone willing to play music like this had to have something going for them. and for this reason alone, and even though i never bought any of their records, happy flowers will always hold a special place for me...
mr trike
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