Lush - Gala, Topolino

Hello, Interwebs! I've never had an illicit .rar blog before, so I don't exactly know what I'm supposed to do with the first post. Write a mission statement? Post nudes? Ask for money?

Okay, well, here's the deal: I'm going to post stuff. Hopefully, the aforementioned stuff will be under-the-radar enough that no record company fat cats or starving artists googling themselves will contact me and cry about copyright infringement. Ideally, I will help a few people track down something they've been looking for since forever. Realistically, I assume that the only people who will find this illicit .rar blog at all interesting are me, as I'm mainly reposting random stuff that I had trouble finding online and think deserves a wider internet presence.

Anyway, I thought I'd start by posting all the stuff already in my Mediafire account before getting to the really cool stuff. First up, Lush! I've only bothered to make a list of my top five favorite bands^[1], but I bet Lush is somewhere in the top ten.


Gala
A fab compilation of their first three EPs, featuring one of my all-time fave ABBA covers (Track 14, Hey Hey Helen). It's Classic Lush: really pretty and shoegazey with indecipherable lyrics about trees and having sex on clouds. Honestly, I may love it more than any actual Lush album. Great for sleeping, making out, general summer fun-having, making pancakes, etc.


Topolino
A fantastic compilation of b-sides from their last album, featuring: my all-time favorite cover of "I Have The Moon" by the Magnetic Fields; a very cute cover of "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by the Rubinoos, which you may notice sounds a bit like that Avril Lavigne song everyone hated a few years ago; a bunch of cracking pop songs; and a few pleasant instrumentals. This is from what I guess Important Music Writers refer to as their "Britpop" period, if that means anything to you. Good for cleaning to, putting in Gregg Araki movies, and walking the dog to.


^[1]For future reference:
1. The Magnetic Fields/Stephin Merritt in general
2. Silver Jews
3. Camper Van Beethoven
4. ????
5. Team Dresch
Yeah, I don't know.