MAD PROPS TO MR. MODERATOR FOR PRACTICALLY NAILING IT.
Jah Wobble (bass: early PIL), and Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit (both from Can, bass & drums respectively) released the LP Full Circle in 1982.
The Mystery Date was a track called How Much Are They which was a European club hit at the time.
Another track after the fold.
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The major — yet extremely irrelevant — hit
The minor — yet extremely excellent — hit
The extremely irrelevant cover of the minor yet extremely excellent hit
UPDATE: Just wanted to confirm what a number of you were already thinking: that the subject of this edition of “Mystery Date” was none other than England’s The Marmalade! You’ll find interesting videos of the band in action above. The two tracks posted in my original post came from a patchily excellent comp of the band’s largely psych mid-60s ouvre, which is worth paying a couple of bucks for.
Remember — when discussing this band, it’s helpful to pronounce their name correctly: “The Mar-mah-lahhhd.”
Thank you for your attention.
HVB
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Here we go again. “Mikey hates everything,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Shove it. That’s just you being all “Conventional Wisdom” and shit.
My man sammy hipped me to his Mystery Date and I gotta say, this time Conventional Wisdom’s gonna take it in the two-hole.
Those two tracks were from perhaps the most viciously maligned rock album of all times: Squeeze by “The Velvet Underground.”
