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Under the Influence – 21 Years of Flying Nun Records

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Released
  
May 16, 2002

Release date
  
2002

Label
  
Flying Nun Records

Recorded
  
22 March 2002

Producer
  
Malcolm Welsford

Genre
  
Indie rock

Under the Influence — 21 Years of Flying Nun Records is a double album that includes tracks by various bands signed or related to the Flying Nun Records label.

Contents

The album was planned as a celebration of the 21st anniversary of Flying Nun Records. Bands invited to be part of the album were asked to record one or two songs. If two songs then one should be a cover of a Flying Nun song that influenced or inspired them and the other song should be a new and unreleased song of their own. These were all to be recorded on a single day at York Street Studio on 22 March 2002.

CD1

  1. "Crazy I Know" – Gerling
  2. "Japanese Girls" – Pan Am
  3. "Outer Space" – Betchadupa
  4. "Gentle Hour" – The Clean
  5. "Heavenly Pop Hit" – Garageland
  6. "Unnecessary Evil" – The Hasselhoff Experiment
  7. "Joe 90" – The D4
  8. "Death and the Maiden" – Stephen Malkmus
  9. "If I Were You" – Tall Dwarfs
  10. "Inner Silenced" – HDU with Shayne Carter

CD2

  1. "Friday in the Ground" – Chris Knox
  2. "Get Loose" – The D4
  3. "Saskatchewan" – Pan Am
  4. "Graduation of Frustration" – Garageland
  5. "Bad Food and Long Drives" – Betchadupa
  6. "Brain That Wouldn't Die" – The Hasselhoff Experiment
  7. "Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" – HDU with Shayne Carter
  8. "Same Old New World" – Graeme Downes
  9. "Corridor" – The Clean

Photography and film

The recording session also resulted in a number of spin-off works:

  • A photographic exhibition by photographer Fraser Harding [1]
  • A feature-length documentary Heavenly Pop Hits [2]
  • A music video of Stephen Malkmus' rendition of The Verlaines' "Death and the Maiden" [3]

    • Songs

    1Crazy I KnowGerling4:08
    2Japanese GirlsPan Am3:19
    3Outer SpaceBetchadupa3:03

    References

    Under the Influence – 21 Years of Flying Nun Records Wikipedia
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