Thursday, July 17, 2008

Motorcycle Boy -re-post!



Earlier today, I received feedback from a reader saying that a link from when I had posted Motorcycle Boy back in April was no longer active; it isn't but given that this fine song is no longer available, so why not repost?

Motorcycle Boy -'Big Rock Candy Mountain (12" mix).' mp3

...and seeing as I didn't post them here originally, why not the tracks from the 7" single?

Motorcycle Boy -'Big Rock Candy Mountain (7").' mp3

Motorcycle Boy -'Room At The Top.' mp3

Motorcycle Boy were the boy founded when Meat Whiplash united with Alex Taylor of the Shop Assistants. Meat Whiplash recorded one Peel session; the Shop Assistants recorded two and had four festive fifty entries in 1985-6; Motorcycle Boy recorded one session and reached no.22 in the 1987Festive Fifty with 'Big Rock Candy Mountain.'

When I posted the track back a few months ago, I did receive a lot of emails etc.. asking what else I had by Motorcycle Boy; this is all I have. So if anyone can email me mp3s I will happily post them here! And if you love Motorcycle Boy and the Shop Assistants you should be checking indie mp3, a totally excellent blog! See also Tom's pages on the Shop Assistants.

9 comments:

david said...

You're so kind Sir!
Motorcycle Boy gigged a fair bit in their time and a surprising amount of people still hold them in great affection. I'm sure they had released a cover of a Velvet's song, though I can't remember what it was. Been trying to track it down for ages but...

Cheers Ed.

Dirk said...

Alas, Ed, this 12" is all I have myself from The Motorcycle Boy, so I can't help you out. But I must say it really is excellent: very nice to see it posted on 17 Seconds!

All the best,

Dirk

Ed said...

David and Dirk, you're both welcome, and if anyone can help us out...please do!

Ed

Tom said...

I have everything the band released so let me know what tracks you want. You can have them all if you want!

I also have a motorcycle boy page. It's at:

http://indie-mp3.net/motorcycleboy/

Tom

Ed said...

Tom - if you are able to send me the other tracks that I haven't posted here (via the email address at the top) I would be eternally grateful!

Ed

Tom said...

Ed - all my music is packed up ready for our move. I will get them to you in early August.

Ed said...

That would be great -and good luck with the move. Everytime I've moved it's been horrendously stressful, so hope it all goes well.

Ed

Anonymous said...

Hi,
This is a great track(s)! I'm the one who mentioned about the inactive link in the older post. Thanks for re-posting!

Ed said...

No worries, whoever you may be! I do try and answer all requests, it just takes time. When Tom's able to send the stuff, I will post some more hopefully...

Ed