Flowered Up - It's On
Ripped from a compact disc single released on Heavenly Records (HVN 003CD) in 1990 to high quality lossless flac audio. Sonia gets immortalised in baggy, flowery pop.
1 It's On
2 It's On - Sonia
3 It's On - Feel Pain
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Happy Monday
Flowered Up - Weekender
Ripped from a single-sided 12" vinyl single released on Heavenly Records (HVN 16) in 1992 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac.
A1 Weekender
Just A Little Bit Partial...
Flowered Up - A Life With Brian
I admit to spending most of the nineties looking for music to like and most of the time failing, though I did by a lot of music - I just struggled to appreciate it. In reflection some twenty years on, I would say that I had likely just fallen out of love with music and hated the way that we were being fed an endless porridge of disposable disco, baggy pop-dance and rock rivalry. Some things did survive my culling of the decade from my collection, I loved Manchester's World Of Twist and New FADS, I loved Sugar and their epic Copper Blue, and enjoyed a few of Seattle's finest, but not much else. I am not slamming the decade, I appreciate that a few of you grew up and had your formative years, but for me it did nothing and I just blanked what was going on. A few albums do still survive today after several clearouts (mostly by accident) and here's a brief selection of what I have.
From the fire into the frying pan, London happy boys Flowered Up were re-molded from indie-minors into the cockney Happy Mondays, and yet they always seemed to be having more fun then their Manc baggy peers (who can forget those big flower costumes). They were very typical of the era, bounding guitar-led dance tunes, chemically altered personalities and whacky, brightly coloured videos - all of which have not aged well and the style sounds very dated today.
On London Records eventually released one album (after It's On had been re:released to death) followed by the splendid Weekender single. The comparisons to the Mondays are to be heard all over this album, but the Flower's used wit & humour better, and whilst we were beginning to grow sick of AH Wilson's claims of the genius of Ryder, Flowered Up were turning out decent pop songs such as It's On, Phobia and my favourite Egg Rush.
On London Records eventually released one album (after It's On had been re:released to death) followed by the splendid Weekender single. The comparisons to the Mondays are to be heard all over this album, but the Flower's used wit & humour better, and whilst we were beginning to grow sick of AH Wilson's claims of the genius of Ryder, Flowered Up were turning out decent pop songs such as It's On, Phobia and my favourite Egg Rush.
Ripped from a compact disc album released on London Records (828 2442) in 1991 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.
1. Sunshine2. Take It
3. Crackerjack
4. Mr. Happy Reveller
5. Hysterically Blue
6. It's On
7. Silver Pan
8. Phobia
9. Egg Rush
10. Doris ....is a little bit partial.
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