The Best of John Peters Sings: 1981-84, by John Peters Sings

The Best of John Peters Sings: 1981-84

by John Peters Sings

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1.	Song For Brian L. (1982) 01:46	info	buy track
2.	Assorted Chocolates (1981) 00:50	info	buy track
3.	When in Love (1981) 01:12	info	buy track
4.	Mitabahee Song (1981) 00:37	info	buy track
5.	The Chant of a Love Song (1981) 01:55	lyrics	buy track
Chris - Instruments, Vocals Hamish - Instruments, Vocals Patrick - Instruments, Vocals Grant - Instruments, Vocals Written by John Peters Sings
6.	I'm Gonna Take That Chance (1982) 00:44	info	buy track
7.	Hurry Up (1982) 01:30	info	buy track
8.	The War Has Begun (1982) 01:27	info	buy track
9.	Da Doing (1982) 01:43	info	buy track
10.	Lullaby For You (1982) 01:24	info	buy track
11.	I Don't Know (1982) 01:30	info	buy track
12.	She's Left Me (1982) 00:24	info	buy track
13.	Walking Down the Street (1982) 00:33	info	buy track
14.	Mine Eyes (1982) 00:50	info	buy track
15.	It is Time to Sing (1982) 00:23	info	buy track
16.	Hoick Song (1982) 00:38	info	buy track
17.	Whiskey Grave (1982) 00:58	info	buy track
18.	Boogy on Down There (1982) 00:43	info	buy track
19.	Searching For Mr Spot (1982) 01:18	info	buy track
20.	Don't... (1982) 00:25	info	buy track
21.	A Boy Called Patty (1982) 00:45	info	buy track
22.	Waltzing Matilda With Me (1983) 00:42	info	buy track
23.	Heaven Knows (1983) 01:30	info	buy track
24.	Fuck (1983) 01:35	info	buy track
25.	Dum Doo Dee Doo (1983) 00:54	info	buy track
26.	The Soft Song (1983) 01:57	info	buy track
27.	You Laugh at my Face (But I'm Not a Window Pane) (1983) 01:20	info	buy track
28.	The Cooking Sherry Song (1983) 01:17	info	buy track
29.	Shitty Underwear (1983) 01:02	info	buy track
30.	Instrumental (1983) 01:18	info	buy track
31.	Crashing Bashing (1983) 00:58	info	buy track
32.	Hooray I'm Gay (Live) (1983) 02:13	info	buy track
33.	Some Described it as Boring (1984) 00:51	info	buy track
34.	A Distant Proconsul (1984) 00:51	info	buy track
35.	Do You Believe (1984) 00:56	info	buy track
36.	Peter Says (1984) 00:59	info	buy track
37.	Good Times Man (1984) 01:04	info	buy track
38.	It Was Then But it Was Not (1984) 01:04	info	buy track
39.	Instrumental 2 (1982) 00:24	info	buy track
40.	We Hope You Enjoyed.... (1982) 00:08	info	buy track

about

JPS were the forerunners to Sphagnum Core with several founding members of JPS continuing on with Sphagnum Core.

Originally formed in 1979 by a bunch of 13 year olds, John Peters Sings were pretty much the only Tauranga alternative band in the early 80's. With their only live outlet being the Otumoetai College talent quests of early 80's and busking, their rare performances were anticipated mostly for their originality and stupidity - after all, people have always liked to laugh at other people making fools of themselves. Unfortunately these performances also made them widely reviled and hated, so their warped take on living in a backwater intolerant red-necked, provincial town in 1980's New Zealand remained largely ignored.... UNTIL NOW!

This best of album gathers songs from their many limited release albums and EP's into a coherent, mostly listenable package for the 1st time. Love them or hate them, you will have to admit that they were original for a bunch of 80's teenagers, and there was nothing else remotely like them going on in NZ (or possibly anywhere else in the world) at the time.

APOLOGIES FOR THE SOUND QUALITY OF SOME OF THESE TRACKS.
This was all recorded LONGGGGG before multi-track recorders were even remotely affordable or even obtainable for home recording. It was all done on a mono radio/tape recorder which deteriorated steadily from the years of abuse it got. In fact tracks 22-31 were done using primitive multi-tracking by bouncing tracks back and forth between 2 separate tape recorders. The shitty sound quality sort of adds something to the project though which was lucky, 'because no way were we gonna pay $50 an hour to record these at a proper studio!

credits

released December 11, 1985

Chris Standring - Instruments, Vocals
Anthony - Instruments, Vocals
Hamish Bond - Instruments, Vocals
Patrick Bonner - Instruments, Vocals
Grant Bullôt - Instruments, Vocals

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Sphagnum Core Sydney, Australia

Radio jingles + indie rock

90% of this was written and recorded on the spot using a motley combination of decrepit instruments, drum machines and musicians.

The bands initial inspiration were the porn-video catalogues that kept arriving in our letterbox from Canberra each month - hence song titles like 'The Enema Marathon', and 'Teenage Sperm'.

Sydney via NZ and Melbourne.

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