Johnny Moped - The Search For Xerxes (LP)

SKU: DAMGOOD559LP

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Johnny Moped's 'lost album' from 1990, finally gets a reissue!

Johnny Moped's 'lost album' from 1990, finally gets a reissue!

I like this album, Johnny hates it. But why? I think it's more 'Johnny Moped' than any other album out there. What other album has entirely penned JM songs/ditties like 'Soldiers' and 'Moped crash' plus ad-libs and all the other little interludes in between the tracks that are pure 'Moped'.
Johnny thinks it sounds like a 'disco' album, which it does in places, but, hey-ho, it was 1989 and it was the age of Stock, Aitken and Waterman.
At the time there had been no Moped band since 1985-ish and certainly Slimy hadn't been in the band since the early '80s. Also, there was only one album out there, Cycledelic so there was a lot of songs destined for a follow up album that never happened and it looked like we were going to be a one album band.
So, with so much unreleased material and a chronic lack of 'mopedisum' I decided to embark on a little project...
This album came out in 1990 on Deltic records but the deal was that I had to produce a finished master tape that could go straight to the cutting room and be pressed, so I borrowed a 4-track Teac and a Roland sampler and Roland drum machine and got to work.
Some of the tracks sound like they were recorded in someone's bedroom, that's because they were, but Captain recorded some great stuff on his 8-track where I had recorded Johnny 'live' and handed over a tape for him to work with ('I'm a Spasm', 'Soldiers', 'Cut across Shorty'). Also, he provided some decent backing vocals on other tracks ('Corpse Boogie', 'Hiawatha').

Dave Berk - May 2022

 

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Track Listing

    • I Believed Her Lies
    • Edwina
    • Every Dream Came True
    • Corpse Boogie
    • Cut Across Shorty
    • I Wanna Die
    • Zogaloogajergabrox
    • Sad Sack
    • Soldiers
    • Save the Baby Seals
    • Moped Crash
    • I'm a Spasm
    • Hiawatha
    • Soldiers

    Additional Details

    Label: Damaged Goods

    Genre: Alternative/Punk

    Language: English

    Run Time: 40:00 mins

    Region: 0

    Release Date: 07/01/22

    UPC: 5020422055919

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