Description:	7" on Fruits De Mer
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Psychedelia / Space Rock
	Label:	Fruits De Mer
	Price:	£2.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brett on 05 December 2008.

Strawberry Alarm Clock were a totally great pychedelic band from the 60s and they once did a tune called 'Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow' that's covered here by some Spanish people called Stay. I'm having to review this from a Youtube video but from as far as I can tell it's very faithful to the original - hazy, organ-led, wah-wah business that hits the spot purely due to the fact that the original is a right old tune; the rest is just window dressing really. This Fruits de Mer 7" also sees them covering The Stones' '2000 Light Years from Home' and 'Chicago' by Graham Nash, neither of which I can tell you anything about since we've got no record player but I'm sure they'd be the best things I've ever heard in my life.

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What their label says...

Buenos dias, mon freunde, as they say in Europe the world over. Fruits de Mer hitting you broadside with a new swashbuckling release.
It’s our third volume with a catalogue number implying it’s the fourth and it may well arrive before the second, but hey, mutiny is our watchword..
And we’ve gone all European on you, as we figured it a good idea to do something Spanish. Jonesy remained excited even after I explained the plan was to release a record by a Spanish band. He does love his paella, that boy…
Meet STAY. They’re from Barcelona (…cue crap Sybil Fawlty impression…), and in-line with the European Championships, Wimbledon and the Tour de France, it’s another winner from the Espanol.
Lead-singer, Jordi, shivery-timbres over a sixties-psych-for-the-noughties backdrop of watertight rhythms and wind in your sails instrumentation, replete with stunning sitar, handy Hammond and way-hey wah-wah. Nice indeed.
‘Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow’ (…Barcelona must be near the plain in Spain…), ‘2000 Light Years From Home’ and ‘Chicago’ have been plundered by these pirates of the Spanish Main, and reinterpreted in a way we can only hope Strawberry Alarm Clock, the Rolling Stones and Graham Nash would say ‘aye-aye skipper’ to. If not, we’ll walk the plank, after all, they have more hooks than your average pirate grog fest (…sorry, that was a bit rum…).
Out on fancy coloured vinyl with a suitably apt label and a mad-as-fish insert on very limited 7” sometime in early November when the trade winds are good. Look, it’s never plain sailing. Ah yes, sunken treasure indeed. Splice the mainbrace…
Right, the sun’s over the yardarm. Phew, managed to get through that without mentioning the Armada or fishing quotas…ah, bugger.