The Astronauts - Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs (La Vida Es Un Mus) Reissue on Vinyl LP

*OUT NOW * Reissue on Vinyl LP
MUS44 THE ASTRONAUTS - Peter Pan Hits the Suburbs LP

Reissue of this long lost masterpice from 1981 originally released by Bulge / Genius records. The Astronauts were (and are, after close to 30 years and a history of lineup shifts only bested by The Fall) the definitive psych-punk ensemble, though even that title doesn't do 'em justice. Their sound culminates the post '77 punk dabblings of head forbears Twink (his 'Do it 77' single and The Rings' 'I wanna be free' platter), Nik Turner (the outstanding Inner City Unit and the 'punkier' late 70's bits of Hawkwind) and Daevid Allen's planet Gong (with fellow acid-punkers Here and Now) all woven in with an earlier Robert Wyatt / mellow candle-y psych folk vibe... While not sounding like any of those things at all. Get it? The album's range is gigantic: from dissonant punk a la Fall ('Everything stops for baby'), to epic progressive folk ('Protest song', 'Baby sings folk songs'), ditties ('Sod us'), hard-rock ('The Traveller'), pop ('How green was my valley'), garage / surf ('Still Talking'), industrial ('How long is a piece of string'), and set to arrangements that employ synths, flute, saxophone, and strays into progressive or even free-form / psychedelic sections. The icing on the cake is the mature statement of the lyrics, a cynical and bitter exploration of the lives of simple men, miles away from the generic horror / punk overtones that permeated most of alternative albums at the time.

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The Astronauts : Peter Pan hits the suburbs [lp 1981/cd 1994]

PROTEST SONG

I live my own life , do what I want , say what I mean
And you've got your own hope , strange ambition , different dreams
So who are you to say I'm wrong?
And who am I to say I'm right?
Though we live in separate ways, why do we argue, always fight?

A man who disagreed with a regime was termed a rat.
One night, some men came round - "we've read your books, we'd like a chat"
And then they kicked him round the cell
With cigarettes they burnt his face
Said "Remember, we're the law. Do you love your family, your duaring place?"

And it seems that fools control this world, the nuclear buttons, the poison pen.
Most of us are in the dark, but then we're only little men.

But little men have mouths to feed
And little men don't want to kill

So little men are never told unless,
of course, the earth stands still.

We have got a chant, ain't got a chorus, ain't even got a name

But it helps us through the night to know we don't share the blame

It's just another protest song

With words to try and make you think ("I think I'll go and have a drink")

But come the dawn resume your search for your ultimate power

Your missing link.

Trakx

1. Everything stops my baby
2. Protest song
3. Sod us
4. The traveller
5. How green was my valley
6. Still talking

7. Baby sings folk songs

8. How long is a piece of string

9. Amplified world

10. Midsummer lullaby
11. Everything stops my baby
12. Back soon

HERE  MP3 @ 320 MB


The Otters

- news March 2011-
THE ASTRONAUTS - Peter Pan Hits the Suburbs *OUT NOW * Reissue on Vinyl LP

MUS44 THE ASTRONAUTS - Peter Pan Hits the Suburbs LP

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