Oh, What A Sorry Life

by Hardsparrow

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	1.	Classic Beard Show 00:51
	2.	Lighthearted 02:51
	3.	I Drew Skeletons 03:47
	4.	You Took The Top Bunk 03:42
	5.	Cremyll Ferry 04:31
	6.	Song Of The Nitrogen Ghouls 01:23
	7.	Ballad Of Gordo 03:12
	8.	Quaggy River Rag 01:19
	9.	Tug Boat 02:01
	10.	The Star In The Gassy Ocean 01:46
	11.	Greasy Ghost 04:11
	12.	A Stoney Bed 05:28
	13.	Sparrows Took My Face 03:23
	14.	Dark Hollow 03:33
	15.	Moon Miner 01:19

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The album is ancient material from 2004 - the first Hardsparrrow CD-R album, from before I'd learnt how to make vocals sound more like on the radio and stuff by compressing them within an inch of their fidelity. A touch ropey here and there, but hopefully an interesting document of my first forays into recording with a home computer, and trying to make music that sounded like Drexciya using just an acoustic guitar and a Bontempi toddler's melodica.

Limited cassette edition released 19/3/12 on Sweet Lion Records.

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released March 19, 2004

All songs by Hardsparrow, except for Dark Hollow, which is Trad. Arr. Sparra.

Extra drums and uurghs on Quaggy River Rag taken from the Dog Smell Like Griffin Sessions by the Brides Of Kong.

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