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Microdisney - The Clock Comes Down The Stairs

Microdisney - The Clock Comes Down The Stairs

Musician: Microdisney
Album title: The Clock Comes Down The Stairs
Style: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Released: 1985
Country: UK
Size MP3 version: 1214 mb
Size APE version: 1633 mb
Size WMA version: 1879 mb
Rating ✫: 4.5
Votes: 162
Format: DMF TTA MP4 XM ASF MP2 AUD
Genre: Rock

Microdisney - The Clock Comes Down The Stairs


Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Horse Overboard 3:53
A2 Birthday Girl 4:08
A3 Past 4:29
A4 Humane 3:07
A5 Are You Happy?
Vocals – June Miles-Kingston
5:24
B1 Genius 4:20
B2 Begging Bowl 5:36
B3 A Friend With A Big Mouth 3:25
B4 Goodbye It's 1987 4:12
B5 And
Vocals – June Miles-Kingston
4:21

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rough Trade Records
  • Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
  • Mastered At – The Town House
  • Distributed By – The Cartel

Credits

  • Bass – Ed Flesh
  • Composed By – Coiughlan*, O'Hagan*
  • Drums – Tom Fenner
  • Engineer – Ian Morais
  • Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica – Sean O'Hagan
  • Mixed By [Mixdown Engineer] – Bill Gill
  • Photography By [Front Cover] – Felicia Cohen
  • Producer, Engineer – Jamie Lane
  • Saxophone – Richard St Jeffe
  • Sleeve – Baker Dave
  • Sleeve [Produced At] – Assorted iMaGes*
  • Viola – Geoffrey Richardson
  • Vocals, Keyboards, Other [Plastic Pubis] – Blah Blah*

Notes

Recorded in London, Summer 1985.
Made in the U.K.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, runout (variant 1)): DZIEN̅ DOBRY, NICK HOBBS! ROUGH 85 A–1U–1–1⥛2̸2 TOWNHOUSE
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, runout (variant 1)): I ONLY FELL OVER 10 TIMES TOWNHOUSE ROUGH 85 B–1U–1–1⥛
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, runout (variant 2)): DZIEN̅ DOBRY, NICK HOBBS! ROUGH 85 A–1U–1–1 ·· TOWNHOUSE
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, runout (variant 2)): I ONLY FELL OVER 10 TIMES TOWNHOUSE ROUGH 85 B–1U–1–1 ·· X1
  • Label Code: LC 5661

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
T/RT 85 Microdisney The Clock Comes Down The Stairs ‎(LP, Album) Transmedia T/RT 85 Portugal 1985
25RTL-3013 Microdisney The Clock Comes Down The Stairs ‎(LP, Album) Rough Trade 25RTL-3013 Japan 1986
ROUGH 85 Microdisney The Clock Comes Down The Stairs ‎(LP, Album) Rough Trade ROUGH 85 Brazil 1985
MD 7977 Microdisney The Clock Comes Down The Stairs ‎(LP, Album) Megadisc MD 7977 Benelux 1985
10012-4 Microdisney The Clock Comes Down The Stairs ‎(Cass, Album) Big Time 10012-4 US 1986



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Centrizius
The Clock Comes Down the Stairs was written and recorded at a point in the band’s life when they had moved from the relative rural merits of Cork to a London that was infested with yuppies. Lyricist Coughlan details a list of grudges against elements of society in general and the music industry in particular. The joy is in discovering how Coughlan welded such discourse (via literate, acerbic diatribes) to songs that chime and ring with large swathes of pop/rock melody.Horse Overboard, Birthday Girl and Begging Bowl (to cherrypick but three) blend non-rock instrumentation and arrangements that see classical viola slug it out with country rock cadences – the latter of which echo the band’s love of fellow maverick Gram Parsons. Fellow ’disney player Sean O’Hagan, meanwhile, filters highly inventive guitar lines across songs that remain as gorgeous as they were nearly three decades ago.