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Playboys in the Bush

by The Puddle

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The LP comes in a robust high quality and durable coated cover, featuring a full size colour print of Tanya Hoarfrost's extraordinary cover art. Inside is the lovely black, heavy vinyl and an illustrated lyric sheet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Playboys in the Bush via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 300 

      $19.50 NZD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The CD comes with the same art as the album and a booklet with some more of Tanya Hoarfrost's illustrations. To save postage costs, the CD and booklet/ cover ships outside NZ without the jewel case.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Playboys in the Bush via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 200 

      $12 NZD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.
Love Songs and erotic stories Are the records of our glory I’m no good at being chaste I love your smell I love your taste too well I’ll get used to being lonely Made as I for one girl only You’re my prize and my reward Tied to me by a tiny silver chord I believe in Oh I believe in I believe in Oh I believe in I miss you in 200 ways Born to love you all my days You have set my world on fire And upside down you must be tired now I must go across the sky Bound to love you ‘til I die As I leave your warmth and food I believe in being good for you I believe in I believe in I believe in I believe in the power of love Now that you have all grown up I believe that rules and laws Were never made about these loves of yours I believe in ripest fruits Birds kissing birds Newts kissing newts In darkness of a kiwi house I suckle on your moist demanding mouth I believe in I believe in I believe in I believe in I believe in holding you To watch your beauty seeping through I believe in other days We will remember, still amazed I believe that when I die I will see you in the sky J’ai Pense Que Je T’adore Love is a flame that burns what came before Oh I believe in Oh I believe in Oh I believe in Oh I believe in I’ll be leavin little toes In little socks in little shoes I’ll be leavin’ on a plane Back into my world of pain I believe in being gentle Even when you’re going mental Oh I believe in I believe in I believe in I believe in I believe in
2.
Fly Rainbow bridge airlines We will get you there on time We will get you there on time If you do know how to get there Your lover should know Your lover should know Your lover should know Fly Rainbow bridge airlines We will get you there on time Get you there and on time Get you there and on time
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What are the words to the song I wrote? The other night I dreamt I heard the lot I still felt them on my tongue The words were rather young They had not begun to make sense To us all in the English speaking world Oh baby, English speaking world What was the music to the song I wrote? The other night I dreamt I heard a note There was a string beneath my thumb The tune was old and young And the words had not begun to make sense To use all in the English speaking world Oh, baby, English speaking boys and girls Got to get in to get out Baby Oh You go to get in to get out (put delay) What was the reason for the song I wrote? The other night I kissed your throat To taste you on my tongue The songs are rather young And the words have not begun to make sense To us all in the English speaking world Oh baby, English speaking world What was the meaning of the song I wrote? The other night a dreamt I heard a quote And a song bite on my tongue The songs are rather young The words have not begun to make sense To us all in the English speaking world Oh baby, English speaking boys and girls Oh You got to get in to get out Oh baby yeah Got to get in to get out Do do do Where is the money for the songs I wrote? The other night I dreamt I heard a quote I had a feeling on my tongue Songs were old and young The words have just begun to make sense To use all in the English speaking world Oh baby, in the English-speaking world ….You got to get in to get out Oh baby yeah Got to get in to get out
4.
Purple Horse 03:20
On a horse called Purple Haze Swept away and she hasn’t eaten For days and days For days and days I sit and moan Oh Lord I wish that horse would come She’s got arms that will Tear you way from those that own you She’s got legs that can Bear you away from what you need Her head shone like a black sunrise A new religion and a darkening of skies There must be someway forth from this plight The dream endured and held right through the night She has arms that will Tear you away from those that own you She’s got legs that can Bear you away from what you need Est-elle almée ?... aux premières heures bleues Se détruira-t-elle comme les fleurs feues?** Is she an almee? in the first blue hours Will she destroy herself like fire flowers? She has arms that will Tear you away from those that own you She’s got legs that can Bear you away from what you need **From BRUXELLES Juillet Boulevard du Régent. July 1872 Arthur Rimbaud Lyrics George D Henderson, Lindsay Maitland Almée = Egyptian dancing woman (supernatural being)
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In Dreams 03:51
You start to feel a little quiet You pay attention for a while There is not going to be a riot For being cool is back in style With pretty girls of easy virtue I will never hurt you wait and see Despite my God-given obligations To pass the word and spread the seed All my God-given obligations Need never make you ill at ease It is like the Delmore Schwartz quotation In dreams begin responsibilities You start to feel a little quiet You pay attention for a while There is not going to be a riot ‘Cause being cool is back in style
6.
Valhalla 09:21
Saturday morning Valhalla - 1:30 AM Thor drops his hammer He picks it up again Saturday Morning Valhalla - About 2 AM Loki comes into the room Lifts wallets, steals drinks from the drunken gods Then Loki steals out again Some call him the trickster Some know he’s just a prick All Hail, all Hail Valhalla! Vale, Vale Valhalla! Saturday Morning Valhalla – at 2:15 In walk the Valkerie The chosers of the slain Brunhilde sashays on up to the bar Takes her pick of the Gods and men Picks Odin up by the scruff of his tunic And she Carries him out again And I say - All Hail, All Hail Valhalla! Vale, Vale Valhalla! Saturday Morning Valhalla - About 3 AM In walks the young hero Siegfried He slew the dragon Fafnir It had troubled the Rhineland Consumed many a maiden As a reward for his heroic deed Siegfried has become a day tripper to - All Hail, All Hail, Valhalla! Vale, Vale, Valhalla! Saturday Morning Valhalla Across the rainbow bridge It’s not easy to get there You can’t even hitch Saturday Morning Valhalla - 3:15 AM Siegfried walks up to the youngest chooser of the slain He says "Hello I'm Siegfried, maybe you know my name I like the way your flaxen braids peep out from under your bronze helmet Your blue Aryan eyes calling out to my manhood I like the way your hips sway in that armour and mail You're a hot, lithe, sweet thing And I want to nail you" And she says - Oh, Oh Siegfried! Oooh, Oooh Siegfried! Saturday Morning Valhalla Round 4:30 AM Siegfried asks his blushing dawnbride “When can I see you again?” The smile is dashed from her young face The tears start in her eyes Her little fists pound the hero’s mighty chest as she curses and sighs “Siegfried when I see you again, I will be choosing and you will be slain, The dragon Fafnir died in vain” She cried Oë, Oë Siegfried! Oë, Oë Siegfried! Saturday Morning Valhalla Across the rainbow bridge It’s not easy to get there You can’t even hitch And I say - All Hail, all hail Valhalla! Vale, vale, Valhalla!
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I haven’t felt so cold for a little while Wrap me round your arms And teach me how to sleep Our trouble will keep for tomorrow Our trouble will keep for tomorrow Deep in the specimen room All the bits of people get back together Even the skeletons are into each other But you and me do nothing at all I haven’t felt so bad for a little while Don’t blame me Or any lousy germs I’ve seen it with my own sore eyes Down by the old people’s home The man from the plastic factory Builds a bonfire on a cold still day Just like you can’t hurt people that way Remember your dreams... I haven’t felt so good for a little while Wrap me around your arms And teach me how to sleep Our trouble will keep till tomorrow Our trouble will keep till tomorrow Come on baby don’t go down town Come on baby don’t go down town The collective madness of a hundred thousand Won’t be cured in a day Remember your dreams...
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Wise Dolls 03:01
I want to be your loving man But I don’t understand you And I don’t know who can maybe Nobody can baby You must have money But we have all the rackets in this town Working for us And there’s some things that money can’t buy Yeah I know that but I have to try ‘Cause when I see the things you do You’re doing them with someone else Well give me a dime and I’ll bring you good luck Show me a buck and I’ll show you a good time The love of a lifetime I see you met my daughter She’s the youngest private detective Don’t be so coy Well you know now the girl was wired We have all of your best licks on file So do we talk or do we - what, What do you want to know? I wanna be your lovin’ man But you don’t understand me And you don’t know who can maybe Nobody can baby Better hold an enquiry To find out how did what to whom first And who's worst And there’s some things that money can’t buy Like the look on your face at the end of the trial What we had was business But you made it feel so personal...
9.
Monogamy 04:45
I need you to look out for me Cause I can’t see a thing today I want to make you happy Cause I feel so sad today Bye Bye it was you that was making me high And I could do it without you But I don’t wanna try When I tell you I love you I know that’s not a lie But I don’t know you and I never even try Bye Bye It was you that was making me high And I could do without you But I don’t wanna try Bye Bye It was you that was making me high And I could do it with somebody else But I don’t wanna try I need you to look out for me Cause I can’t see a thing today I want to make you happy Cause I feel so sad today Bye Bye it was you that was making me high And I can’t do it without you But I don’t wanna try
10.
I used to be so sick of love Never knew what I was dying of I only lay there Sick and beaten What happened next Was never worth repeating Till you came along And showed me the fruits Of your years of experience You never did anything wrong You showed me the way to the stars When you gave me your song I used to be the King of Love I never knew what I was ruler of I just sat with rod and scepter What happened next I just forget, for You came along Showed me the fruits Of your years of experience You never did anything wrong You showed me the way to the stars As you gave me your song I used to wander on the shore I never knew what I was waiting for I just sat down in the sand I never thought a girl might land Till you came along And showed me the fruits Of your years of experience You never did anything wrong You showed me the way to the stars When you gave me your song
11.
Strange to say I still believe you You’re in my way I’ll never leave you Though the rain falls through the trees sometimes The water tastes good And it feels fine For this is Christmas time In the country Dogs are barking Cows are mooing Who cares what the world is doing Inside Now it's Christmas time In the country Though the rain falls through the trees sometimes The water tastes good And it feels fine It must be Christmas time In the country When you get out in late December Do something that you’ll remember All year Fools! It should be like that here In the city What a pity In the city What a pity
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New Zealand underground psych-pop pioneers return with a third new album in 4 years - "no band other than The Puddle would’ve dared imagine that such a configuration of ideas and ambitions could be organised into a pattern of psychedelic pop."

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released November 1, 2010

Produced by Richard Steele
Recorded at Inca Studios, Wellington, NZ by Mike Gibson
Artwork by Tanya Hoarfrost

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The Puddle Dunedin, New Zealand

With their 1986 – 93 Flying Nun Records catalogue long
out of print, The Puddle finally re-emerged in 2006 with 4 acclaimed albums released on Fishrider Records.
The Puddle have always been the most stubbornly underground of the bands associated with the
Flying Nun imprint. Their debut Pop Lib was recently included in SPIN magazine’s list of the best Kiwi pop releases alongside The Clean.
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