Sun City Girls

Pictures

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Buy on Amazon Amazon Expand purchase options
  • Digital download
  • Amazon Amazon
  • 7digital 7digital
  • iTunes iTunes
  • Physical media
  • Amazon Amazon Search
  • eBay eBay Search
  • 1,367,502
    scrobbles
  • 58,214
    listeners

Tags

Everyone’s tags

Biography

Phoenix, United States (1981 – 2007)

Sun City Girls was a melting pot of free rock, demented surf, ragas, Arabic folk songs, free-form freakouts, gamelan percussion and dada poetry, among various others. A fiercely independent trio, their only credo seemed to be to continually stretch boundaries whilst leaning towards performance art in their live shows. This process led to a dizzying array of vinyl, cassette and CD releases stretching over 20 years.

Formed in Phoenix, AZ, Sun City Girls first performed under the name in 1981, and after morphing into the short-lived Paris 1942 (with former Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker), the group emerged as a trio with brothers Alan Bishop and Sir Richard Bishop and percussionist Charles Gocher in 1982. They released their first album, Sun City Girls, in 1984 on placebo Records, going on to release nearly 30 official albums and countless limited-edition vinyl, cassette, and CD-R projects, making their discography almost impossible to completely document.
Throughout their history, Sun City Girls remained a challenging, unpredictable and eclectic musical unit, operating outside the commercially driven mainstream recording industry and eventually becoming something of a beacon to independent musicians and artists everywhere. Relocating to Seattle in the early ’90s, Sun City Girls established their own label, Abduction Records, as well as an archival imprint, Sublime Frequencies.
Read more… Edit bio

Top Albums

Listening Trend

58,214listeners all time
1,367,502scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Start scrobbling and track your listening history

Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.

Create a Last.fm profile

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

  • Larsen_sd

    To Cover Up Your Right To Live !

    Yesterday 8:30pm Reply

  • Adenviel

    Stop it cjkisaragi, you clearly aren't intellectual enough to enjoy SCG.

    30 Apr 6:36pm Reply

  • cjkisaragi

    "deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself" The insecurity pours out of you, matt_white.

    24 Apr 4:55pm Reply

  • Treason_is_bad

    If you can get "Eye Mohini" on vinyl, I'd recommend getting it. 4 amazing songs on a little 7", and I only paid 10 bucks for it. Granted, that was a great deal, you can get it for about 20-25 bucks normally.

    10 Apr 11:41pm Reply

  • HollowHead

    @stian86 Thank You.

    6 Apr 7:05pm Reply

  • stian86

    @HollowHead I believe this reached the internet not too long ago. It contains the songs you mention, and the rest of the songs on it seem to be quite popular as well.

    5 Apr 6:08pm Reply

  • HollowHead

    I find it strange that several tracks, that I am not familiar with, suddenly became popular recently - Eye Mohini, Gum Arabic, It's Ours etc. One can observe the increase of listeners of tracks 'Recent listeners trend' graph. Can someone maybe explain this phenomenon to me? Did something get uploaded somewhere? I can't seem to find the particular release..

    5 Apr 5:50pm Reply

  • HollowHead

    Three of Master Musicians of Bukkake's albums are actually a tribute to the Sun City Girls (the totem trilogy) and SSC members are mentioned somewhere in the text on the back or on the sleeve. Richard Bishop never appeard on the recordings but according to B.R.A.D (MMoB vocals, and leader, I believe) he was around while tracking.

    5 Apr 5:47pm Reply

  • drone_kebab

    same here, stian86

    4 Apr 3:31pm Reply

  • stian86

    Alan Bishop sang on Master Musicians of Bukkake's People of the Drifting Houses back in 2009. Thought I'd mention it, that's how I found out about this band.

    31 Mar 9:25pm Reply

  • naotas_forehead

    I just got 330,003 Crossdressers on vinyl. It's fuckin' incredible. So much easier to digest when it's split up into six sides.

    28 Mar 1:21am Reply

  • thiego23k

    same

    27 Mar 2:06am Reply

  • beautifuldaddy

    please don't

    26 Mar 10:11pm Reply

  • naotas_forehead

    deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music f

    23 Mar 5:15pm Reply

  • painovoima

    deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself

    23 Mar 6:42am Reply

  • matt_white

    deep music for deep intellectualists such as myself

    20 Mar 8:53pm Reply

  • ahmhappehplz

    we got tiedye condoms for sale

    12 Feb 9:58pm Reply

  • HollowHead

    I FUCKING LOVE Sun City Girls.

    2 Feb 5:25pm Reply

  • fluoxetine20mg

    jacks creek best one

    24 Jan 5:17pm Reply

  • Pazop

    rampface, you can find it on Soulseek

    18 Jan 12:07pm Reply
    • All 705 shouts

Listening Now

Top Listeners