Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[Mark Butler <stereolad AT yahoo.com>]

I'm pretty sure the Pop Aural Flowers beat the
Australian Flowers to the punch on the use of the name
"Flowers" and caused the Aussies to rename themselves
Icehouse.

--Mark 

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> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:41:11 -0400
> From: "Mr. Tim" <timmy.bear AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] TypicalGirls Digest, Vol
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> In the liner notes to their best of comp, it's
> stated that one of them
> played piano on one track ('additional' piano - are
> we at Morrissey on
> 'Death of A Disco Dancer'?).
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> >    1. Re: bananarama-writers (ERIC GREGORY)
> >    2. Re: bananarama-writers (mike AT appelstein.com)
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> > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 07:08:52 -0700
> > From: "ERIC GREGORY" <ericsgregory AT msn.com>
> > Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] bananarama-writers
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> > looks like it's been established that they don't
> play their own instruments
> > but here's some additional marginalia:
> > siobhan fahey co-wrote "young at heart" with bobby
> bluebell (and legally-
> > the violin/fiddle player) for the bluebells (and a
> very different
> > arrangement is on "deep sea skivving"), she's been
> involved in more than a
> > couple projects post-bananarama (most notably-err-
> shakespeare's sister).
> > she and sarah and karen all had hands in writing
> songs off the
> > aforementioned debut lp.
> > and paul weller wrote a song (pretty lousy) called
> "dr. love" which was used
> > on the same record.
> > i believe weller and his pal dr. robert (blow
> monkeys) had a hand in some of
> > the playing and singing on that track as well (and
> possibly the entire
> > record- i don't have my copy handy).
> > believe it or not, bananarama existed pre- SAW and
> they weren't any worse
> > than most other new-pop detritus.
> > esgate: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:17:32 -0700 (PDT)>
> From: Lizzie Ehrenhalt
> > <dancingvioletsnail AT yahoo.com>> Subject:
> [TypicalGirls] Bananarama!> To:
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> > text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > Does anyone
> remember if Bananarama
> > played their own instruments?  How involved were
> they in songwriting?  I am
> > doing a paper for the EMP Pop Con that touches on
> mainstream 80s "girl
> > bands" and want to include them, but haven't found
> much reliable lit out
> > there on them (or "the Nana" as they are called by
> fans!).>    >   Thanks,>
> >  Lizzie Ehrenhalt>   ----------------------->
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> > Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:18:39 -0400
> > From: mike AT appelstein.com
> > Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] bananarama-writers
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> > Glad to see that folks are distinguishing the Fun
> Boy Three period from
> > the SAW
> > period.  My recollection is that Bananarama
> basically started as Fun Boy
> > Three
> > guest vocalists - "It Ain't What You Do" has Terry
> Hall's vocals all over
> > it,
> > for instance.  It wasn't until later with "Cruel
> Summer" and "Venus" that
> > they
> > became actual popstars.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > Quoting ERIC GREGORY <ericsgregory AT msn.com>:
> >
> > > looks like it's been established that they don't
> play their own
> > > instruments but here's some additional
> marginalia:
> > > siobhan fahey co-wrote "young at heart" with
> bobby bluebell (and
> > > legally- the violin/fiddle player) for the
> bluebells (and a very
> > > different arrangement is on "deep sea
> skivving"), she's been involved
> > > in more than a couple projects post-bananarama
> (most notably-err-
> > > shakespeare's sister).
> > > she and sarah and karen all had hands in writing
> songs off the
> > > aforementioned debut lp.
> 
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