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TRACK-LIST:Savoir Faire, Der Leiermann (Organ Grinder), Darling, Playing Golf (With My Flesh Crawling), Silence, Warm, Sunday Girls, Debbie Harry, The Big Dig, Film Music, Cold Wars, Cerf Volant, Dinosaur Sex, Silent Movie, Monkey, Tragicomedy. |
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Family Fodder released a series of compelling, now collectable singles and albums between 1979 and 1983. Described as 'entertaining idiosyncratic experimentalism' with pop sensibilities, they were best known for indie-chart hits such as 'Debbie Harry', 'Playing Golf (With My Flesh Crawling)' and 'Savoir Faire', More recently, Family Fodder songs have been covered by Zion Train and Unrest, and they've been hailed as 'unsung heroes' in The Wire.
The first biography of Family Fodder claimed they were formed by vivacious Media Fodder (23) and her three brothers Tod (22) Rod (21) and God (24), all strong admirers of The Partridge Family. In reality they were a London-based group of musicians based around Alig, a classically-trained songwriter, and French chanteuse Dominique, who'd met Alig through their mutual friends This Heat. With their Farfisa organ and Dominique's French-accented vocals, they sound now like a fore-runner of Stereolab. Their first time on CD, this 16-track 'Best Of' anthology, assembled by Douglas Wolk of Dark Beloved Cloud Records, USA, features almost all the singles, the best bits of the Monkey Banana Kitchen album, tracks from the Sunday Girls and Schizophrenia Party EPs, and a couple of never-before-heard tracks. It includes an 8-page booklet with sleeve-notes by Dominique. | |