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Sun City Girls
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Phoenix, United States (1981 – 2007)
A melting pot of music styles — demented surf, Indian Rāgas, free-form noise, gamelan percussion, fractured folk, you name it — with doses of kabuki theater, shadow puppetry, and maverick guerilla stagecraft thrown in, the avant-everything Sun City Girls were a fiercely independent and experimental trio whose only credo seemed to be to continually stretch boundaries while remaining amazingly inclusive, a process that led to a dizzying array of vinyl, cassette, and CD releases over a period stretching nearly 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 The 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. Sun City Girls released their first album, Sun City Girls, in 1984 on placebo Records, going on to release nearly 30 official albums since then, along with countless limited-edition vinyl, cassette, and CD-R projects, making the group’s discography almost impossible to completely document. Throughout its history Sun City Girls remained a challenging, unpredictable, and eclectic musical unit, operating outside the commercially driven aspirations of the 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.
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 The 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. Sun City Girls released their first album, Sun City Girls, in 1984 on placebo Records, going on to release nearly 30 official albums since then, along with countless limited-edition vinyl, cassette, and CD-R projects, making the group’s discography almost impossible to completely document. Throughout its history Sun City Girls remained a challenging, unpredictable, and eclectic musical unit, operating outside the commercially driven aspirations of the 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.
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Treason_is_bad wrote:
She's as ripe as a cantaloupe, and invisible as me!
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Albert_Transom wrote:
"wacky"
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Albert_Transom wrote:
tried to take a nap when i saw the bishop bros live in concert last year
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i-phantom wrote:
@Lesser_Tribe. Hahaha, yeah. I should have specifically said the first CD of 330003...
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chyprechypre wrote:
Salty.
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TimesOfGrace wrote:
Carnival Folklore Resurrection, Vols. 11 & 12 ... really fucking good.
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Lesser_Tribe wrote:
Ghost Ghat Trespass/Sussmeier ISN'T what I call "fairly accessible". Fair access to the ass of your mind maybe.
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lee1993lee wrote:
I cant find Live room?
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WillOtheWisp666 wrote:
uncle jim is the man!
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M_Vinteuil wrote:
Have you got an aquarium? Is it STOCKED?? Here, here’s thirty dollars fellas, go out and buy some seahorses and STOCK it for your Uncle Jim.
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i-phantom wrote:
330003 Crossdressers is fairly accessible too, especially if you skip the first two tracks (which you really shouldn't do, cause CCC is incredible).
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curare_curare wrote:
Torch of the Mystics turns out to be pretty accessible
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watchherride wrote:
why don't you calm down first? it's just about bbcode and the factbox. [ yearformed ] and [ yearsplit ] codes. already done.
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Treason_is_bad wrote:
What the fuck? 1981 - present? The two remaining members (The Bishops) stopped performing under the name "Sun City Girls" in 2007 when Charles passed on. Get that shit straight.
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cafebatik wrote:
oh yeah im cool
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cafebatik wrote:
SkippyJJ: To Cover Up Your Right To Live, Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog, Borungku Si Derita, The Brothers Unconnected
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SkippyJJ wrote:
where to start
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i-phantom wrote:
@M_Vinteuil I paid 15 quid for that. Was worth it for the soundtrack disc alone tho.
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phillip360 wrote:
Glue the estrus 'pataphysics group and absorb time machine lecture #6
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polymorphous71 wrote:
CIA man was originally done by the Fugs godammit.
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