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from the early discopunk of "Wheel me out" on Ze to Don's production of *the big names* is a pretty strange trip.
Were they just sub zappa infantiles, or something more?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 28 March 2003 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

their cover of Papa Was A Rolling Stone is very good, apart from the rap break.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Sweet Pea Atkinson is the most underrated vocalist of the last 20 years.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I only know do the dinosaur and hi mom I'm in jail but that's good enough for me.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

bonus points for being called Sweet Pea

― H (Heruy), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Super-duper good and very, very funny--"Shadow and Jimmy," "Out Come the Freaks"...

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

First album is, as Paul Morley so rightly said in his NME review of the time, pop's "Escalator Over The Hill."

Yes, alright, alright, I'll write something about it for Church of Me...

(didn't think much of the other ones though, Torme singing "Zaz Turned Blue" on the second album excepted)

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 28 March 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

flame-thrower rap.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 29 March 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

and they were from Detroit.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 29 March 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

yes marcello, please.

"somewhere in america, theres a street named after my dad", is my favourite song at the moment.

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 29 March 2003 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

c: the title Born to Laugh at Tornadoes

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i've been listening to them all weekend. i couldn't be bothered with the dumb stuff (walk the dinisaur etc) but i think i'm a fan. Elvis' Rolls Royce, Anything can happen, Zaz, Professor Night, Return to the Valley...great tunes, stupidly touching lyrics...

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 30 March 2003 07:37 (twenty-three years ago)

seventeen years pass...

RIP Sweet Pea Atkinson:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9373142/hillard-sweet-pea-atkinson-obit

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:12 (six years ago)

Man, first Cristina now Sweet Pea. 2020 can get straight in the bin. RIP

― Jeff W, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:40 (six years ago)

man o man.
one of the first bands i saw when i left home and got to the big city of leeds was the full revue style version of was (not was) during their big budget pop era with sweet pea atkinson holding centre court throughout.
such a brilliant pop/soul show, the likes of which i have never experienced since.
r.i.p.

― mark e, Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:35 (six years ago)

Aw, shit, RIP. A sublime singer, for sure. No mentions here of Forever's a Long Long Time, the Orquestra Was record of Sweet Pea singing Hank Williams lyrics over jazz backing? Seems like a mix that shouldn't work, but it's really nice stuff.

― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 21:32 (six years ago)

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