Flying Nun 25th Anniversary box set

i think there are only 2 real gems on disc 4 - the ghost club and that king loser track

Lurv the Able Tasmans! Y'all should know about the 'new' album under the Humphreys & Keen moniker, available at CDBaby. Now if I could just track down the 3 tracks from their debut EP that were left off the _Cuppa Tea_ CD.

Anyone know where I can get the Goblin Mix/Exploding Budgies CD ??

is graeme humphreys still a sports broadcaster?

Disc 1
01 The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else
02 The Gordons - Coalminers Song
03 25 Cents - The Witch
04 Pin Group - Ambivalence
05 Bilders – Alien
06 Bored Games - Joe 90
07 The Stones - Something New
08 Mainly Spaniards - That's What Friends Are For
09 Naked Spots Dance - Governed By You
10 The Victor Dimisch Band - Native Waiter
11 Marie & the Atom – Isol
12 Childrens Hour – Caroline's Dream
13 Fetus Productions – What's Going On
14 The Chills - Pink Frost
15 The Rip - The Holy Room
16 The Great Unwashed - Neck of the Woods
17 The Verlaines - Pyromaniac
18 Expendables - The Man With No Desire
19 Doublehappys - Needles & Plastic
20 Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies - Randolph's Going Home

Disc 2
01 Tall Dwarfs - Crush
02 The Exploding Budgies - Kenneth Anger
03 Alpaca Brothers – Hey Man
04 Axemen – The Wharf With No Name
05 The Weeds - Wheatfields
06 Dead Famous People - Barlows House
07 The Orange – What's In A Name
08 Goblin Mix - Travelling Grave
09 This Kind Of Punishment - Immigration Song
10 Sneaky Feelings - Trouble With Kay
11 Bird Nest Roys - Jaffa Boy
12 The Bats - North By North
13 Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie - Thief With The Silver
14 Jay Clarkson - The Boy With The Sad Hands
15 The Cakekitchen - Dave The Pimp
16 Straitjacket Fits - Dialling A Prayer
17 The Terminals - Batwing
18 Look Blue Go Purple - I Don't Want You Anyway
19 Snapper - Buddy
20 Stephen - Don't Know Why
21 The Dead C - Scarey Nest
22 S.P.U.D. - Breakdown Town

Disc 3
01 Sombretones - Good Evening Listeners
02 Chris Knox - Meat
03 Headless Chickens – Gaskrankinstation
04 Queen Meanie Puss - Contracts
05 Olla – Skeptic Hagfish
06 N.R.A. - Glitch
07 Chug - Flowers
08 Skeptics – Sheen Of Gold
09 The Magick Heads – The Back Of Her Hand
10 Dribbling Darts – Hey Judith
11 The Renderers – Touch Of Evil
12 JPS Experience – Bleeding Star
13 Pop Art Toasters - What Am I Doing
14 3Ds - Philadelphia Rising
15 Dimmer - Crystalator
16 Alec Bathgate - Pet Hates
17 Rik Starr - A Sort Of Holiday
18 Garageland - What Will You Do?
19 Bailter Space - Splat
20 Able Tasmans - Klingon National Anthem

Disc 4
01 Superette - Saskatchewan
02 Loves Ugly Children - Suck
03 David Mitchell & Denise Roughan - Crying Room
04 Solid Gold Hell - Country Sow
05 King Loser – '76 Comeback
06 Bike - Save My Life
07 David Kilgour - Chop Me In 1/2
08 Bressa Creeting Cake - Rocky Mountain
09 Chris Heazlewood - Surf's Up In Malibu
10 Martin Phillipps - Evermore
11 The Hasselhoff Experiment - Brown Paper Bag
12 Ghost Club - Ghost Club Theme Song
13 Betchadupa - Spill The Light
14 Robert Scott - Harmonic Deluxe
15 The Subliminals - Uh-Oh
16 High Dependency Unit - Schallblüte
17 Graeme Downes - Cattle, Cars & Chainsaws
18 The Shocking Pinks - Emily
19 The D4 – Sake Bomb!
20 The Mint Chicks - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
21 Toy Love - Rebel

sometimes they went with the obvious choice and sometimes not. this is like the 5th comp the 'randolph's going home' has been on, sure it's amazing but maybe denise roughan's 'to sleep, to dream' instead. i've always wanted that orange ep.

the humphreys/keen record sounds just like an able tasmans record! i suppose that's about right since all of them had a hand in it.

1. Flesh it out with some more great tracks by the Clean (easy to do), Verlaines, Bird Nest Roys, Chills, "Future Shock" by the Gordons, etc. etc.
2. Now, we stray off topic with regards to it being Flying Nun exclusively,but we're talking CD-R's, so let's say the Shallows single and some of Roy Montgomery'stellar solo work, and Trash's "On and On With Lou Reed"
3. Throw in some of the great punk stuff featured on "AK 79" (which FN DID reissue, so fair game, right?) like Proud Scum's "Suicide", the Terrorways and the Scavengers. Also add some other tracks by the Spelling Mistakes and the Nocutrnal Projections. If someone is really an insider. then throw in some unrelased tracks by the Enemy.
4. Finally, add some of the Xpressway releases from 1988-92 like the Plagal Grind EP , Dead C's "Sun Stabbed" 7, and the Carter-Jefferies 7"".

But again, this would not be a celebration of Flying Nun, per se, but it would be a great overview of the NZ scene at that time.

Garageland sucks though :P

Other interesting notes:
The Puddle don't show up on a single Flying Nun compilation. Draw your own conclusions.
"Randolph's Going Home" actually is on just 3 comps.
"Not Given Lightly" is on 5. And it deserves it.
"Suck" by Loves Ugly Children is also on 5. I think it's a top tune, but c'mon...
The Bats lead the way with 14 unique tracks represented.

The only comp I couldn't find that I really wanted was _Outnumbered By Sheep_. If anyone has a vinyl rip to trade, lemme know.

And I passed on the two _Freak The Sheep_ comps, those look clearly second-tier. Anyone have an opinion of them?

Scott, box set isn't really that bad, & there's interesting/"interesting" stuff that people wouldn't put on their own box sets for you (NRA! Rik Starr! Naked Spots Dance!) on there.

Flying Nun Heavenly Pop Hits Documentary in 9 parts:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sjUDemQFznA

thanks for that.

really drives home how great the fits were before Andrew Brough left and how rubbish they were after that. squandered your opportunities there, shane.

I'm still loving this box set. I need to step up my defense of disc 4 - where's the weak tracks here? Both Superette (with sort of a poppy Sonic Youth vibe) and Bike's (the good part of Straitjacket Fits, all soaring melodies and guitar wash) only albums are absolute classics. There are a few tracks that are far and away the best thing done by the band ("Suck" by Loves Ugly Children is a model for quiet/loud/quiet songs and The Subliminals "Uh-Oh" is a totally addictive early Stereolab-like groove with a hiccuping vocal that sticks in your head) and the King Loser track is perfect Kiwi surf-rock. The Mint Chicks track, with it's driving, martial drumming just begs for repeat plays, even the D4 track is a short burst of pure punk that does it's job and leaves. The experimental soundscape from Robert Scott isn't killer but it fits well. Even the stuff from otherwise uninteresting Betchadupa and Hasselhoff Experiment are solid. Too bad Flying Nun is just a barely animated corpse these days.

why so much time on the headless chickens? sure they were the biggest selling band but that doesn't mean they were not wretched. martin phillipps new job is to cry all the time. some of the guys seem pretty bitter. of the top ten straitjacket fits songs andrew brough probably wrote five or six of them. that atmospheric melodic noise he made in the background left with him and it's why 'blow' blew.

Just to re-bump this: Flying Nun Heavenly Pop Hits Documentary also available here now (in 6 parts - quality may be better than the youtube version):

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/heavenly-pop-hits-the-flying-nun-story-2002

This documentary tells the story of the legendary Flying Nun music label up to its 21st birthday. The label became associated with the 'Dunedin Sound': a catch-all term for a sprawl of DIY, post-punk, warped, jangly guitar-pop. The Guardian: "[it's] as if being on the other side of the world meant the music was played upside down". Features interviews with key players, the spats and the dark-but-breezy glory. The label's influence on the US indie scene is noted and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus covers The Verlaines' 'Death and the Maiden'.

i dug that doc

one of the things i really love about FN is that there never seemed to be a cult of personality around the people who ran it, unlike many/most highly influential labels.

That documentary rules.

The cheapest way to the box is to check it out from the Auckland library for two dollars.

(note to self: always be in New Zealand)

Yeah Roger is a thoroughly down to earth bloke, apparently looking to get FN back from the clutches of Mushroom, so rumour has it, so a relaunch may be possible in the near future. xpost

This Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/greeneyedowl/ is amazing -- tons of awesome FN-related posters and news clippings.

Ha, I just noticed that as well!

There's a Verlaines review where the writer calls the FN guitar sound dated -- and this is from 1983!

That comp really should have something off Scorched Earth Policy's first 12" EP. Maybe "Green Cigar" or "Too Far Gone." Near the top of the (very high) early 80s NZ heap.

Just release a box set of the first 60 singles like Cherry Red did.

Yeah, and I've long thought there should be a box in which was found cd-5 repros of the first ten to 15 12" EPs. in minimal cardboard sleeves if that's what it took. But who wouldn't want the Clean, Gordons, Scorched Earth Policy, Orange, Max Block, Bored Games, Alpaca Brothers, Children's Hour, Plagal Grind, Pin Group, and Stones? Yeah, I know, that's eleven, and probably not the first eleven at that, but you get the point...Through in Ballon d'essai, Marie and the Atom, the Rip, and the Bird Nest Roys and you'd have fifteen.

Probably too elaborate a concept. Maybe just go your Cherry Red route and fill up four cds that way.

man, it's too late for copy-editing. "Throw in"