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This is the name of two artists.

One (pictured) is the more recent band to have The Churchills name. A modern American alternative group, their music - namely the song ‘Everybody Gets What They Deserve’ - has been featured prominently in Bill Lawrence’s TV shows Spin City and Scrubs.

. The other is an absolutely amazing psychedelic rock band from 1968…

The eponymous 1968 album by Israel’s Churchills is one of the most sought-after records in the world. While some rare records go for hundreds of dollars, an original copy of The Churchills is likely to fetch thousands. Why? Because not only is it next to impossible to find, but The Churchills is one of those rarer-than-rare records that actually lives up to its reputation. From the opening bars of the first song on Side One, “Open Your Eyes” - an explosion of ecstatic screams and fuzz, “faces, lips and teeth and eyes; diamond rings and pretty things, and arms and legs and thighs” - you know this is going to be one amazing trip.

Track after track the album continues to astonish, delivering everything from electrifying psychedelic rock to evocative pop ballads with equal degrees of skill and originality. Soulfully delivered vocals, searing fuzz guitars, spacey sound effects, exotic Eastern flourishes - the Churchills use a dazzling palate of tones and colours, stretching the primitive Tel Aviv studio technology of the day to its limits to create one of the most brilliant psychedelic albums from anywhere in the world
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2 Dec 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/churchills

Our song "Unpopular" will be featured in the finale of the new Paris Hilton MTV show Tuesday Dec. 2. We think that's called 'irony' when someone who is very popular uses a song called "Unpopular" in a. …

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