VA - Tally Ho! Flying Nun's Greatest Bits [2011] (2 x CD's)

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VA - Tally Ho! Flying Nun's Greatest Bits [2011] (2 x CD's)

A 2CD compilation from the groundbreaking New Zealand-based label. This set collects material that falls under the broad category of 'Pop music' as well as that which pushed boundaries and did not sit comfortably within the popular market. At the same time, the two discs overlap a great deal, and together they showcase an important and creatively powerful artistic output that remains relevant today. It's 30 years of Flying Nun's very own greatest bits.  (Amazon)

New Zealand's decades-running indie imprint Flying Nun Records has become virtually synonymous with "kiwi pop," aka the extremely specific wistful indie pop sounds coming from the region and its long line of guitar-swinging sound-tweaking denizens. Tally Ho! is the label's first collection of would-be greatest hits, a retrospective starting with the Clean's 1981 rallying-cry single of the same name, and screaming by in a jangly daze right up to highlights from more recent artists. Label retrospectives like this usually have a high percentage of clunkers, but these extensive 40 tracks start strong and stay remarkably high quality to the end. Absolute essential tracks by movement-defining bands the Clean, the Bats, the Verlaines, Straitjacket Fits, and the Chills set the scene for how the New Zealand sound first formed, and tracks by less celebrated but equally inspired acts like Bird Nest Roys, Chris Knox, and the amazing all-girl Look Blue Go Purple help to show a bigger picture of Flying Nun's signature sound outside of a truncated overview. This picture is expanded further by the inclusion of tracks from the weirder end of the stable by drone-rockers the Dead C and lo-fi goof-poppers Tall Dwarfs, among others. If anything, Tally Ho! is happily frustrating because a single song from most of these bands merits investigating their entire catalogs. Thusly, the collection works more as a sampler or a starting point for anyone who's completely unfamiliar with the label or its incredible contribution to all the music that's followed in its wake. This collection is a tip-of-the-iceberg indication of the debt owed to Flying Nun by indie rock in general. Influential-in-their-own-right acts like Pavement, Guided by Voices, Yo La Tengo, and Dinosaur Jr. would be very different beasts had some of the Flying Nun records never graced their ears, as would everyone in the chain of influence on down the line. (AllMusic Review by Fred Thomas)

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Track lists

01    Clean    Tally Ho!    2:37
02    Verlaines    Death and the Maiden    4:26
03    Chills    Heavenly Pop Hit    3:27
04    Sneaky Feelings    Husband House    4:12
05    Look Blue Go Purple    Cactus Cat    3:18
06    Birds Nest Roys    Alien    3:47
07    Bats    North By North    4:03
08    Great Unwashed    Cant Find Water    2:09
09    Straitjacket Fits    She Sppeds    4:05
10    Able Tasmans    Fault in the Frog    3:20
11    Fetus Productions    Whats Going On    4:29
12    Jean-Paul Satre Experiance    Breathe    3:12
13    Garageland    Pop Cigar    4:43
14    Bressa Creeting Cake    A Chip That Sells Millions    3:47
15    Chris Knox    Not Given Lightly    5:07
16    Headless Chickens    George    4:09
17    Mint Chicks    Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!    4:39
18    Phoenix Foundation    40 Years    4:31
19    Robert Scott    Too Early    2:55
20    Grayson Gilmour    I Am a Light!    3:21
21    Pin Group    Ambivalence    3:23
22    Gordons    Machine Song    3:23
23    Stones    Down and Around    5:13
24    Childrens Hour    Looking for the Sun    5:52
25    Doublehappys    Needles and Plastic    5:22
26    Tall Dwarfs    The Brain That Wouldnt Die    3:19
27    Snapper    Buddy    3:40
28    3D'S    Outer Space    3:13
29    Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferie    Randolphs Going Home    3:56
30    Bailter Space    Fish Eye    3:35
31    Dead C    I Was Here    1:50
32    Skeptics    And We Bake    4:29
33    Solid Gold Hell    Bitter Nest    2:48
34    Dimmer    Pacer    4:21
35    Loves Ugly Children    Space Suit    3:22
36    High Dependency Unit    Schallblute    3:42
37    Ghost Club    Ghost Club Theme Song    4:17
38    Subliminals    United State    3:56
39    Shocking Pinks    This Aching Deal    2:29
40    F in Math    Dont Look Down    2:56

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