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Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part eight.


Led Zeppelin

For seven years, I dwelt
In the loose palace of exile


Velocity Girl

Playing strange games with the girls of the island
Now, i have come again


Mudhoney

To the land of the fair, and the strong, and the wise
Brothers and sisters of the pale forest


In One

Children of night
Who among you will run with the hunt?


Small Ax / Beef / Coal Palace Kings / Catapult / The Figgs / Dryer

Now night arrives with her purple legion


Muler

Retire now to your tents and to your dreams


Colorblind James Experience

Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth


Air Miami

I want to be ready'


The Mummies / The Enchanting Spellbinding Accordion of Alicia Rose / Three Stoned Men / Slug Dick Nick / The Phantom Surfers

[And thank you, Mr James Morrison, for the narration]

Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part seven.


Tortoise

Soon
Soon


Hilkka

I am the lizard king
I can do anything


Air Supply

We came down
The rivers and highways


Sonic Youth

We came down from
Forests and falls


Nick Lowe

We came down from
Carson and Springfield


Robyn Hitchcock

We came down from
Phoenix enthralled


The Cure

And I can tell you
The names of the Kingdom


The Phantom Surfers / The Mummies

I can tell you
The things that you know


Mudhoney

Listening for a fistful of silence
Climbing valleys into the shade


Talking Heads

Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part six.


Coal Palace Kings

Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside


New Radiant Storm King / Guided By Voices

Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar


Pavement

C'mon along, we're not going very far
To the East to meet the Czar


Rail

Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run


Nod

Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake


The Incredible Casuals / The Figgs

Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl! We're almost home


Koo Koo Boy

We should see the gates by mornin'
We should be inside by evening


Neil Diamond

Sun sun sun
Burn burn burn


GoGos

MOON, MOON, MOON
I will get you
Soon


Guided By Voices / New Radiant Storm King

Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part five.


Sonic Youth

Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run


Dryer

Let's run
Lets run


The Cure

House upon the hill
Moon is lying still


Bardo Pond

Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze


Hilkka

C'mon baby run with me
Let's run


Six Finger Satellite

Run with me
Run with me


Green Magnet School

Run with me
Let's run


Hector

The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there

Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part four.


Chicago

Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled


Sonic Youth

Beast car locked in against morning
All now sleeping


J Geils Band

Rugs silent, mirrors vacant
Dust Lying under the beds of lawful couples


Mudhoney

Wound in sheets
And daughters, smug


J Geils Band

With semen eyes in their nipples
Wait
There's been a slaughter here


Ken Rubenstein

(Don't stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and fan are on the ground


Andy Gibb

We're getting out of town
We're going on the run


Mother May I

And you're the one I want to come)


Stars On 45

Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun


Flywheel

Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part three.


Muler

I think you know, the game I mean
I mean the game, called 'go insane'


Transmission Fifty Six

You should try, this little game
Just close your eyes, forget your name


1313 Mockingbird Lane

Forget the world, forget the people
And we'll erect, a different steeple


Nora

This little game, is fun to do
Just close your eyes, no way to lose


The Bevis Frond

And I'm right there, I'm going too
Release control, we're breaking thru


Air Miami

Way back deep into the brain
Back where there's never any pain


Nod

And the rain falls gently on the town
And over the heads of all of us


The Carpenters

And in the labyrinth of streams
Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of


Andy Gibb

Nervous hill dwellers, in the gentle hills around
Reptiles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air heights


Hall And Oates

Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part two.


Billy Joel

The snake was pale gold
Glazed and shrunken


Big Chief

We were afraid to touch it
The sheets were hot dead prisons


Supersuckers

And she was beside me
Old, she's no, young


Muler

Her dark white hair
The white soft skin


Lift

Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom
Look!


Gas Huffer

Shes coming in here
I can't live thru each slow century of her moving


Colorblind James Experience

I let my cheek slide down
The cool smooth tile


Big Hair

Feel the good cold stinging blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain


Record Time Allstars / Kookoo Boy

Once I had, a little game
I liked to crawl, back in my brain


The Shop Class Squares

Seven Inches

In no order, 7" records from my shelf. Part one.


Fugazi

Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming


Led Zeppelin

A beast caged in the heart of a city
The body of his mother


Dinosaur Jr

Rotting in the summer ground
He fled the town


Rick Springfield

He went down South and crossed the border
Left chaos and disorder


Robyn Hithcock

Back there over his shoulder
One morning he awoke in a green hotel


Mudhoney

With a strange creature groaning beside him
Sweat oozed from its shining skin


Mudhoney

Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin


Kim Carnes

Wake up!
He can't remember where it was


Hilkka

Had this dream stopped?


Trashcan records