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Still in Their Original Packaging

by The Quixotes

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Innit Patch 08:31
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The Failing Muse 03:41
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We’re the cure for your new punk waves The age-old shore up new age graves Sell elegance with white noises Opinionated comeback poisons Your Kaiser sends her ornaments We stomp out all the malcontents Stomp Hide forever, what we did I want to be this comeback kid Her beat-up turbo 911 Never acquired this much fun Kept in time she paid her rents We’ll stomp out all her cruel moments Stomp She’s everybody’s failed muse Oh, how to fill her empty shoes When the muse has failed And it’s never comin’ back She took me to the higher places Then left me to these human races The muse has failed It’s never comin’ back Take my space and fill it up Never say you’ve had enough Emote iconics distilled, deterred Drunk on lovers disinterred We have heard it and we can’t take it No-one gains cos no-one makes it Stomp She’s everybody’s failed muse And cast aside one colour blues When the muse has failed And it’s never comin’ back Stomp “Erato, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Urania Euterpe, Calliope, Melpomene, Clio, Thalia” She’s everybody’s failed muse You never filled my front page news When this muse has failed And it’s never comin’ back She’s everybody’s failed muse Oh, cast aside those empty shoes When the muse has failed And she’s never, heaven, ever comin’ back
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Whoop-Dee-Fuckin-Doo 03:54
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Face for Radio 08:39
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Latitudes 09:07
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When the wind howls The East wind howls I’m sent to greet her When the wind howls Now the East wind howls I’m sent to meet her Hung on every kiss Unto her every kiss I’m wrapped around her Touch again, my skins Psycho chiller rings She’s wrapped around me Like a girl in white With fairy-light eyes The land she sees The sand she spies The oceans break her rising highs In chaos find latitudes wise In chaos find latitudes wise I’m wrapped around her She got my full attention What she gonna do without it? When the wind howls And how the East wind howls When that wind does howl I’m sent to greet her I’m rapt around you You got my full attention So what you gonna do with it? I’m rapt around you You got my full attention So what you gonna do with it? Leaving me in chaos Leaving me in chaos Leaving me in chaos Leaving me in chaos In chaos find latitudes wise In chaos find latitudes wise In chaos find latitudes wise In chaos find latitudes wise In chaos find latitudes wise
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Cockfosters PUA 03:08
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Hoodwinked 07:30
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I Grew Up in the 80s 04:59
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Julianna McDuffie vs The Quixotes - Stars 03:19
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I’ll let you sit and watch the show See me turn, see me glow You’re free to use your eyes and ears Imagination knows I am made of stars I am made of dust I am made of everything I am made of love But watch where you grab hold of me Watch where you touch Watch how you move into me I’ll burn you, if I must I am made of stars I am made of dust I am made of everything I am made of love What are you looking at? I am made of stars I am made of dust I am made of everything I am made of love
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Freedom of Information 03:43
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On a Rail 05:07
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Transcendent 07:59
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Advantage 05:44
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Keith Floyd The Wall 06:14
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Of award-winning song "The Failing Muse", guest judge Dave Spiers wrote "Really reminds me of an 80s band called Scary Thieves who I thought were superb and the arrangement here reminds me a lot of the some of the better 80s Synth Pop that was around in my youth. Good song. Too catchy to ignore!", and is thus perhaps the highlight of this 2014 collection of miscellaneous works including Song Challenges, from the 2011-14 period, in the compilation album "Still In Their Original Packaging".

The album also features our collaborations with two brilliant singer-songwriters, Holly Nelson (A Million Tiny Architects) adding wonderful vocal textures to the chilly and experimental ten-minute, one-chord wonder "Latitudes", and the retro-pop reworking of Julianna McDuffie's curiously wry and dark "Stars". Meanwhile, a Quixotes' hero, the great Keith Floyd, is given a fitting tribute in (notable-mention but sadly not winning) song challenge entry "Keith Floyd The Wall". "There will be happiness, happiness, happiness; in spades!" Indeed there will!

This very 80s-inspired selection (after all, "I Grew Up in the 80s" ;) !) also includes the runner-up song from another challenge, "Cockfosters PUA", which no less an authority than electronica and punk legend Mark Reeder thought was "very inventive and I liked the psychedelic aspect of it". Digressing from the synth-pop, the album includes the anthemic "Advantage" and one of our favourites, the catchy "Face for Radio". This special edition release includes some bonus tracks, including the extended live version of "I Grew Up in the 80s". Not channelling Dominique Perrier there at the end. At all. No siree! ... Where's my keytar, dammit?

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released December 15, 2014

All tracks by Matt Black.
Except "Stars" written by Julianna McDuffie, arranged and remixed by Matt Black, and used with permission of the copyright holder.

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With infectious and highly melodic tunes, The Quixotes specialize in songs about abject misery. Straddling multiple genres including electronica, indie- rock, 80's pop and blues. The rather schizophrenically monikered Quixotes were in fact merely one Matt Black, a London- based singer- songwriter. ... more

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