Музыка и песни Bachelor Pad, The / Bachelor Pad, The

Scared To Get Happy is a 5-CD Box Set with a massive 127-song tracklist. Scared To Get Happy is a Nuggets-inspired 5-CD box set devoted to the 1980s Indie guitar pop revolution which swept across the British Isles. From the post-punk scene and Postcard Re Record Label: Cherry Red Style: Independent

Limited Yellow vinyl, gatefold sleeve, with colour insert poster. "Imagine the Buzzcocks with Syd Barrett as the singer!" THE BACHELOR PAD : five lysergically-enhanced heads from Strathbungo, Glasgow. Psychedelic punks born into, but delightfully out of step with the C86 fanzine culture of the time. Flashes of red and purple_ Perfect pop buried amidst a nuclear maelstrom of noise and excitement. During their brief existence they burned bright, squeezing out an album, 5 singles and a flexi-disc, with the cream of the crop being served up on this career spanning compilation. "_amid the sonic bedlam, they write the sweetest melodies, they've got the most agreeable harmonies. It's all about extremes: "Do It For Fun" is the noise your brain makes when everything you've taken comes on top at once; "Tumble And Fall" is as cute as a squirrel's nut, "The Coroner's Wife" is_. well, answers on a postcard, please." Alexis Petridis

White vinyl 5 track 10 inch EP. "Imagine the Buzzcocks with Syd Barrett as the singer!" Originally released as The Bachelor Pads' swansong single in 1991, Emotional Response have re-released this pop gem, as an accompaniment to the "Best Of" compilation LP. 5 songs, white wax, in a faux "Blue Note Records" styled sleeve and label, featuring a previously unheard stripped back piano mix of "Jenny Brown" and the full length 8 minute version of "Do It For For". THE BACHELOR PAD : five lysergically-enhanced heads from Strathbungo, Glasgow. Psychedelic punks born into, but delightfully out of step with the C86 fanzine culture of the time. Flashes of red and purple_ Perfect pop buried amidst a nuclear maelstrom of noise and excitement. During their brief existence they burned bright, squeezing out an album, 5 singles and a flexi-disc, with the cream of the crop being served up on this career spanning compilation. "_amid the sonic bedlam, they write the sweetest melodies, they've got the most agreeable harmonies. It's all about extremes: "Do It For Fun" is the noise your brain makes when everything you've taken comes on top at once; "Tumble And Fall" is as cute as a squirrel's nut, "The Coroner's Wife" is_. well, answers on a postcard, please." AlexisF Petridis