VERSUS wallflower

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coming as a bonus 7" with their maybe most difficult album, Two Cents Plus Tax, this song is pure power-pop.

in contrast, Deep Red's first song, Shooting Star. music to get addicted to.

listen.

buy!

RONDELLES safety in numbers

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brilliant. everlasting youth.

Japanther's Ian (hidden behind his super-early HOW 2 moniker) is on their first album, Fiction Romance, Fast Machines - the very last track, not mentioned on the cover, but on the inlay. oh yeah.

listen.

buy. (still available? YES!)

COTTON CANDY fantastic & spectacular

Mark Robinson. genius by all means. on his new adverts-fetish-project together with his wife, Blast Off Country Style's Evelyn Hurley. including the essential jingles for Anderson McQuaid and Canobie Park.

listen.

buy as long as you can!

UNREST cherry cherry

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Mark Robinson! Mark Robinson!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bought in a longtime gone record store near the central train station in geneva, back in 1997. very skilled female seller, i remember.

my earliest Teenbeat record (#49!)


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EGGS skyscraper

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another ridiculously underrated Teenbeat act.

even though the song is not quoted in the novel, it would perfectly fit into Rick Moody's Garden State.


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BRATMOBILE there's no other way [Blur cover]

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ten one-minute-songs = Teenbeat 100.

perfect tape-filler. and way different from what you might expect from Bratmobile.

and, just for fun, compare this obscure 55sec. Blur-cover to anything that, say, the Vivian Girls have released so far.
see?





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TRUE LOVE ALWAYS r u coping w/ me?

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maybe the best song True Love Always have ever recorded.

physically pleasing breaks, semi-candid melodies played with some relaxed, yet precise Unrest-edginess that always keeps a distance.

boy do i love this song.



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AIR MIAMI see-through plastic

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pure autumn-pop.

a song to kiss someone - not necessarily the one you love.


listen.

buy as long as you can.


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AIR MIAMI stop sign

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as they sing in another song:

i love you, you're so cool.

recommended lecture to this song: Rick Moody's Garden State.


listen.


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TRUE LOVE ALWAYS mediterranean

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cheap Mark Robinson-wannabees, most of the time you're listening to it.
but, sometimes, just perfect Teenbeat-pop.
all you have to do is to wait for the right mood- wave.


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VERSUS forest fire (live)

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the a-side, Glitter of Love, is a pure classic - a smash-hit from Versus' legendary Secret Swingers lp.

but the b-side, this slow warped live-version of Forest Fire, changed my life.
how can that be?

no more talking, see you tomorrow.

interpretations are welcome.


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BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE hey hey i love you bitch

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i love them sooooooo much.

got this 7" in tokyo, back in 2001, in one of the best record stores you can imagine. 7 floors, one for each musicstyle, and boxes filled with secondhand vinyl, sorted not by alphabetical order, but by date of receipt!
japanese seem not to have the strongest propensity to hoard things.

collecting stuff is much more fun when you get rid of stuff from time to time, questioning yourself (and the collection).

this song is dedicated to M.
don't give up! you'll find the right one.


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VERSUS big head on

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no, this song does not appear on the Dead Leaves singles compilation.

yes, the artwork could be better.



they still play shows (Blade Of Grass, from their classic debut lp The Stars Are Insane):



listen.

buy here .

or here.


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FLIN FLON

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Mark Robinson, indiepop-genious.
founder of Teenbeat, head of UNREST and AIR MIAMI.



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