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Blood - Abandoned Pools (Sped Up)

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Go Sailor were a great, short-lived band from the mid-90s who represent a key link in the US indie music chain. Featuring Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, The Softies, Gaze, Brave Irene), Linton (Henry's Dress, The Aislers Set) and Paul Curran (Crimpshrine), they released three great singles and a few compilation tracks, and then went their separate ways. But what records they are! Basic and lovely in their song-writing, they're perfect snapshots of where indie-pop was during that last burst of pre-internet indie activity. Touching on time-honored themes friendship and love (lost and found), they resonate with honesty and purity of intention.

While the themes might sound super-sensitive, the music is anything but. Rose's scrappy guitar was backed by Linton and Paul's sparkplug rhythm section, each song vibrating with enthusiasm and punk rock energy. Tunes like "I'm Still Crying," "Windy" and their ace cover of Nar's "Blue Sky" are as rambunctious and infectious as pop comes, showing the band's roots in the Bay Area punk scene. And the hits just keep on coming: "Ray of Sunshine" and "Long Distance" are total classic, while "Bigger Than The Ocean" slows the pace down for a couple's dance. Paul takes the lead on "The Boy Who Sailed Around The World," wrapping up this flawless record with one of the band's live favorites.

Go Sailor reunited in the early 2010s to play to enraptured crowds at the NYC and Athens Popfests, and their appearance at the Slumberland 20th Anniversary show was the stuff of legend. This album compiles all three of their singles plus compilation tracks and was first released on vinyl in 2011. Due to pressing plant issues it quickly went out of print and that's just not right, so we are very happy to bring you this 11th anniversary edition, back on vinyl where it belongs.

Go Sailor - Together Forever In Love

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Nostalgia (Official Audio) - Dvme 
Producer - SHVRS 
Prophecy.

Nostalgia

I Love December
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

I love December 
It's so cold, 
another year
I guess I'm getting old

In December I see more
All those things now at the stores
Things I thought I might have wanted
Never had, and now don't care
They could have made me happy
But I don't know, time passed
It might be me
I wasn't there

I can't get into the mood
My mind has other thoughts
I cannot find the room
Things I wish I had forgot

I worry about stuff
I read the news, play old songs
No jingle bells, I hear reindeer are dying
and I am sick of trying

These thought pass through my head
I cannot do it
I love December

People's smiles I don't believe
I have nothing I can give
Rushing and shoving at the stores
Out of time, need one thing more

Packages late, 
from vendors that I hate
Spending money I don't have
And I can't afford a cab

Buying things nobody wants
For kids who will ignore them
Disappointed and so bored
Always wanted something more

And friends I would forget
And doing things I will regret
And me in a blue funk
People asking if I'm drunk
And me in a blue funk
People asking if I'm drunk

I think I have the flu
Won't be there, I'm not able
Or may hide under the table
But, yes, I love December

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