Bloody Hell! It's the Lungs, by The Lungs

Bloody Hell! It's the Lungs

by The Lungs

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	1.	Stalagmiteman 02:00
	2.	Scumbag 02:54
	3.	Charming Bastards 02:49
	4.	The Orange 02:02
	5.	Derek V12 02:38
	6.	Ruth Is On A Train 01:50
	7.	Raising Cain 02:37
	8.	In The Capital 02:03
	9.	Oleoleo 02:15
	10.	Scrabblebrain 03:23
	11.	Out In The Sunshine 02:16
	12.	Hey! Peter 01:59
	13.	Silver Star 02:02
	14.	Bang! 03:13
	15.	Heartbreak Hotel 03:14
	16.	Do As You Are Told 03:03
	17.	The End Of My Street 02:02
	18.	The Place Where Time Stands Still 01:55
	19.	The Day James Cagney Died 02:11
	20.	Tra La La 04:57

about

The Lungs existed for a relatively short period of time during which they made an impact on the music scene completely in proportion to their level of success.

Rising from the ashes of Third Spain in late 1986, Maeyc and Alan recruited bass player Tim Parry to form a lean, stripped-down trio that played short fast songs that were described by Huw Prestatyn as like "Johnny Cash on speed" and by John Robb as comparable to The Minutemen.

The only official Lungs release during their lifetime was a calendar, entitled "Bloody Hell! it's 1988" which featured 366 reasons for a party, together with 12 portraits of the group. They appeared on a few compilation cassettes including Windmill Records' "Are You Ready?", Central Slate's "Burning Down The Chapels" and one put out by the late Welsh studio wizard Les Morrison, and had a retrospective "best of" entitled "Bloody Hell! it's The Lungs" released some years later on Central Slate Records, originally as a 9 track cassette and later as an expanded CD reissue featuring 20 tracks. It is the CD running order that we use here, containing as it does, virtually the entire repertoire of the group, except for a handful of covers that the group would sprinkle into their live sets. These included The Modern Lovers' "She Cracked" and "Old World", The Fall's "Rebellious Jukebox" and "Totally Wired", Nico's "Janitor of Lunacy", Third Spain's "Better Myself", David Bowie's "Absolute Beginners" and The Saints' "This Perfect Day". Versions of some of these songs may well appear in a future release covering The Lungs' live recordings.

credits

released January 16, 2021

Alan Holmes - Guitar, Vocals
Maeyc Hewitt - Drums
Tim Parry - Bass

all songs by The Lungs except 15 (Axton/Durden/Presley) and 16 (Stephen Davies/The Lungs)

tracks 1-15 recorded at 5 Regent Street, Bangor on 25th & 26th November 1987
track 16 recorded at 5 Regent Street, Bangor on 16th June 1987
track 17 recorded at 5 Regent Street, Bangor in January 1988
track 18 recorded at 5 Regent Street, Bangor on 5th May 1987
tracks 19 & 20 recorded at Unlucky Søn, Bethesda by Les Morrison on 1st March 1988

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Turquoise Coal Wales, UK

Turquoise Coal started in 2012 as a depository for archive recordings of north Wales music. Later that year we became a record label and have released several vinyl LPs, CDs and downloads. Some can be found here, and will be continuously added to over time. All our releases by Spectralate can be found on the group's own site (see link below). ... more

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