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Parsnips Under My Feet

by Various Artists on Pumf Records

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Nothing seems to matter when I am full of you there’s a hole in my life where the dark shines through And I want to take you down to a place where nobody goes I’m trying to be someone else someone else is trying to be me life is slipping away the older we get but this is no time for sadness I am the horse that runs through your dreams A church bell tolls in the distance whilst my mind seems to cry I am full of you and I will pull through
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I want to be you just for a while so i can get behind your smile to work out what you really think and what it means to see you blink do you in fact say what you mean? mean what you say if I so glean why don’t we both think the same? then maybe we’d achieve our aims do you see green when I see red? what do we share inside our heads? you know I’d never understand and things don’t ever go as planned but just for once I’d like to find that I could really read your mind
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CHERNOBYL MADE ME SICK GORBACHEV’S A FUCKING DICK PRESIDENT REAGAN IS A BASTARD LET’S GO OUT AND ALL GET PLASTERED THE FALKLANDS WAR MADE ME PUKE THATCHER NEVER TELLS THE TRUTH HIDING UNDERNEATH HER HAT BUT SHE’S JUST A FUCKING TWAT
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Jesus came down in a lear jet and told me “no more war” there’s starving people in the third world and no-one helps the poor disease and death are both ok if you can stand the pace but no more war would guarantee the future of the human race Jesus worked on the railway and worked to further peace the people cheered and held him high and threw a mighty feast then war broke out again and jesus turned his back in shame flew off to the sun in his lear jet and was never seen again
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Hallo trees! Hallo sky! and lots of lovely words and there in the sky hovers an airship uhhhhhhh, bloody hell just another sweet on the confectionery counter Perfect love affair you’re both in awe same time completely relaxed you feel very small and insignificant when a huge chocolate bar’s flying in the air Darling I miss you and my fridge is full of eels she’d come up with a good answer but she’s in bed switched off the tape recorder and looked into the sky the huge chocolate airship had moved on
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long story...
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I’d want to be close to you if I needed someone walking in the rain and smiling my umbrella I see you in my eyes looking at me and wishing i was you if I needed someone The tune inside my head clings tight and won’t let go I try to transfer hold from guitar to you to want to be close the touch, the laugh, a racing heart and silver light shines down to see us needing someone
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Ride my wheelbarrow I’m a marshmallow Norbert Dentressangle Iis my uncle [Repeat]

about

Floating Mill Records, FMR.004

This compilation consists of six bands and 14 songs pulled from seven different Pumf Records releases from 1986 to 1998. Since he still runs the Blackpool, England label and is a songwriter/musician on all the songs compiled, there’s no better person to describe the music of Pumf Records than the man himself, pStan Batcow.

“Way back when, in-between running away from rampaging tyrannosaurus rex and hungry velociraptors (or maybe they’d already extinctioned by then, Year Zero, 1984, and I’m just recollecting memories of strange times), I started a tape label because nobody else wanted to release my music - I knew loads of other people and bands who were in the same situation and reckoned I could release a stack of DAMN. FINE. MUSIC. And, heck, tape labels were Way Cool, Daddio!

Since then I’ve released loads of albums and copied thousands of cassettes, moved with the times (bad-temperedly, and about ten years after everybody else, because cassettes were just better) and switched to CDs (again, thousands of CD-Rs have been burned and a fair few Pumf CDs have emerged from various big-boy-proper-and-all-that pressing plants) and find that I’m still here beavering away during a global pandemic and loving lockdowns that prevent me from having to associate with other humans. And for what it’s worth, despite an almost complete disregard for Pumf by the majority of Earth’s populace, it still fills me with joy. It’s what I was put on the planet to do, and whether or not you pay attention. . . well that’s your loss.

Pumf has slowly amassed the catalogue of DAMN. FINE. MUSIC. that I imagined some 37 years ago, with currently 118 releases under the belt (and more in the pipeline). So, the major labels won’t ever have been worried about competition from this minnow in their pond, but this whole thang was never about competing on their level; it was about doing something so much realer than they could ever do.

And did Pumf do that? HELL, yeah! Mission Accomplished - but the beat goes on. . .”

Also straight from the Horse’s mouth, here are descriptions of all the bands featured in this compilation:

“- Def-A-Kators -
The Last Great Punk Band. Described as "a cross between the late lamented Voidoids and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound in a motorway pile-up.” They prompted one reviewer to refuse to even listen to their album, saying: ". . . never played this album, but it can’t be any good. It’s simply not possible.” The unrecognised Gods Of The Underground.

- Howl in the Typewriter -
pStan Batcow's solo project, in operation since 1985 - occasionally performing live but carrying out most of his assaults on people's senses from a locked studio, with a sign on the inside of the door reading 'WARNING: this door leads into the asylum.’

- BILE!, Troll, & Gravelin -
Three different bandnames for the same 'band,’ to denote the passage of time that consisted of pStan Batcow and whichever poor sods drifted close enough to him to be unable to achieve escape velocity at the time of recording. For several of them, life was never the same again; 'Normal Service' was never resumed.

- Rrrrrrr -
A series of postal recording collaborations between two chaps obsessed with the letter R. The long-distance effect shows, the music fails to gel in such a manner that an altogether different listening experience is created; intriguing, disconnected and vital all at the same time.”

All releases used in this compilation (including many great songs we couldn't license) are now available from the Pumf Records Bandcamp page: pumf.bandcamp.com.

credits

released April 12, 2022

All songs written by Pumf Records founder pStan Batcow and, at times, a rotating group of other UK musicians, mainly in Blackpool.

Remastered by Caufield Schnug of Melody Men in Austin, TX/Lawrence, KS.

Cover by Floating Mill using the boots taken from the cover of Gravelin’s Blessed is the Norm - Watch thou for the Mutant (PUMF 287, 1997).

“On Pumf Records,” the band descriptions, and the collage all courtesy of pStan Batcow.

All songs released on Pumf Records between 1986 and 1998. Pumf’s back catalogue and current releases can now be found at pumf.bandcamp.com and pumf.net.

Floating Mill Records, FMR.004
March 2022

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Compilation of artists from Pumf Records in Blackpool, UK. Compiled by Floating Mill Records.

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