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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Get While The Getting's Good

If you've ever suspected that Scotland might produce more great pop music per capita than any other country in the world, and you're the type of person who likes nothing better than having your suspicions confirmed, then you might do well to get your hands on a copy of Get While The Getting's Good, a brand new compilation of (mostly) young Scottish bands, on the (yes, German-based) Aufgeladen Und Bereit label. (Scroll down just a bit to get to the album.)

There's hardly a duff song on the record, but particular highlights currently include:

* "Barcelona" by Jock Scot and Gareth Sager - a spoken word piece about drinking, and being ripped off while drinking.

* "Mail, Alice" by Wake the President - a chiming, jangling slice of C86 pop that trounces almost everything on the recent retrospective compilation of the same name, curated by Bob Stanley.

* "Hurry Monkey Hurry" by Tibi Lubin - one of those songs where, if it weren't for the title, you'd have no idea what was being sung in the chorus. Confident, sexy, and a little David Lynchy.

* "A Year in a Comprehensive" by Popup - a hilarious and biting tale of a posh girl spending a year at a not-so-posh school. And all done in just over 90 seconds!

* "Brand New Song" by the Pendulums - utterly beyond my descriptive powers, but wonderful.

* "Handstand" by Down the Tiny Steps - hypnotic and gorgeous, reminds me slightly of the Books' early stuff.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

How's Barcelona? I'm a fan of spoken word.

Steve said...

Seems fitting that a German label with that name would release a comp of Scottish bands, since the name is taken from the title of an US release from 1981 by one of Scotland's finest bands -- the Fire Engines' "Aufgeladen und bereit für Action und Spass" (1981) -- it's basically their UK album "Lubricate Your Living Room" plus the "Candy Skin" single.

Anonymous said...

Anyone know where this might be available in the States?

David said...

As far as I know you can only get this through the label's site - shipping is only 4 Euros, though. (I have no idea how much that is.)

Unknown said...

Hey guys.. Erik from Wake the President here, i stumbled across this and though i might let you knoe our 7" single is on sale: here:
http://www.puregroove.co.uk/preorder.asp?Genre=11

Cheers!

Diamonddog59 said...

it is a pleasure to see a cool German label supporting Scottish music and this album is an amazing listen, which popup were pleased to be involved with.

Alec

www.myspace.com/popup

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