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by Plastic Squirrel

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1.	whydidthistakesolongtorecord? 03:16	info	buy track
2.	Stuck Here 03:01	info	buy track
3.	Slightly Rattled 03:49	info	buy track
4.	The Green Cola Badger 04:06	info	buy track
5.	Bintney Speared 02:28	info	buy track
6.	They Can't Take That Away From Me 02:48	info	buy track
7.	Fighting Feet 02:44	info	buy track
8.	The Rola Cola Polar Bear 03:46	info	buy track
9.	Bassline (feat. Maz Totterdell) 03:40	info	buy track
10.	Give It Up (KC and the Sunshine Band, from Disco for the Dismal) 05:40	info	buy track
11.	Hot Stuff (Donna Summer, from Disco for the Dismal) 05:38	info	buy track
12.	Mystery Train (Elvis) 04:25	info	buy track

about

Not just a clever title, this really is made up mostly of bits I have recorded over the last 15 years or so to test new equipment, learn new instruments, and just to generally muck about with stuff. And it is genuinely, mostly shit.

There is no cohesion whatsoever, as some of it is lovely quiet acoustic songs, some of it is throbbing electronica, some of it is relatively heavy metal, some of it is from back when I still sang in a ridiculous mid-atlantic not quite aymericane accent, and some of it features my more recent vocals, which take considerably less effort. So figuring out the track order was pretty bloody difficult. U didn't even bother remastering the levels to keep the output relatively constant, so expect to be riding your volume controls, sorry.

Remember, just because you don't like one track, doesn't mean that you won't hate the next one for entirely different reasons.

Even by my usually low standards, this is pretty dire, I make no apologies for the godawful production on most ot it, but some of it is funny. I had a few tracks i wanted to put out as the last Plastic Squirrel EP (for a while anyway) as I am now concentrating on something a little more lighthearted, which I might take out live. And it is more difficult to pretend to be either a band , or a synthetic rodent when there is an audience involved.

I figured this would be a fitting send off, all the useless outtakes from albums that were pretty out-takey to start with. Including the infamous, and long-forgotten about Disco for the Dismal EP, which got shelved after John Lewis adverts rendered it redundant as a concept.

Good luck, and enjoy

credits

released January 31, 2015

Pretty much everything was written, played and sung by Dave Holwill, same as usual. Some of it is from Maz Totterdell, some of it is KC and the Sunshine Band, some of it is Elvis, some of it is Britney Spears and some of it is Donna Summer.

Oh, and I used the drums from a Run DMC track, but they sampled it from Aerosmith first, so I'm not sure who's the guiltiest of nicking stuff here.

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Plastic Squirrel Devon, UK

Throwing unlikely instruments together in the comfort of my own garage since 1996. Still not settled on one type of music, because I like all types of music. Unashamedly lo-fi recording, it is the song that is important, not the production, okay?

Sorry for the slow output, but life continues to get in the way of art I'm afraid, so bear with me, there will be new material eventually. ... more

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