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Watch Children - How Does It Feel To Be So White? (cas, 1989)
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With titles like "Watermelon Soup", "Immediate Ratification" "Coconut Lifesaver" and "Teenage Lima Bean" you know what to expect. If you've enjoyed Chocolate Soup series or the more psyched tunes of Pebbles, look no further for another chapter of multi-colored reverberation, full of every psychedelic essence known to these children' fried minds. Garage rhythms, lysergic guitar riffs, cheap studio effects, two-finger played farfisa and some of the most vibrating, underwater-recorded, Sonics-inspired and Syd-Barrett-treated songs you could possibly hear in this or any other life.
Watch Children were Marc Saxton on guitar and vocals, Martin Splichal on guitar, Elena Papavero on bass and John Kleiman on drums and their base was in New Jersey. Marc Saxton and Elena Papavero (the group's core - although Martin Splichal has written most of the songs in this cassette) were in the early line-up of Laughing Soup Dish. Saxton penned their first single - the classicTeenage Lima Bean (included here without its backward ending) and its flipside Rainy Day Sponge, and they both left before its release on Voxx, to continue as Watch Children. Classic lo-fi recordings, as we're all accustomed to, when it comes to garage-psych treasures, these 17 tracks of "How Does It Feel To Be So White?" are just a sub-note in the book of underground music, but sometimes such sub-notes can open doors to very enjoyable possible worlds.
Releases: "Salvador Dali's Still Dying", on Freakbeat #7 EP (1990) (coming soon in Lost In Tyme) "Did You Feed the Fish?" on Fun With Mushrooms compilation (1991) "How Does It Feel To Be So White?" cassette, 1989 "Kinda Retarded Tapes" (2X7' EP, released around 1997-8 with recordings from 1987) several tracks were recorded for a second cassette announced in 1990 with the title "Here Are Our Heads" (including Salvador Dali) as well as an LP, but those were never released - as far as I know. Some of these songs appeared in "Kinda Retarded Tapes" years later.
Listen to this here, and let me know what you think, when you return.
Holy Crap!!...I ordered this tape, and carried it, when it was new, in my record store. I THINK I ordered it from Midnight, but can't remember. Eventually, I bought it for myself, and, at the time, was GROSSLY disappointed. It wasn't so much the sound quality (which was bad beyond belief), but the songwriting, and performances. I eventually lost the original tape, but was intrigued that you had it here, and am willing to give the band a second chance. I remember it not measuring up to the killer shit I was gettin' from J.D. ( the owner of Midnight records) at that point...maybe I was just too friggin' picky. I'll comment again, IF my opinion has changed. thanx.
Okay!!! They're friggin' GREAT! AND the sound quality is MUCH better than I remembered (was it cleaned up?)...I don't know where my head was at , to have remembered them so un-fondly...EVERYBODY, download this baby. Later, Me
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