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Silver Apples / Fade

by Hippy Dribble / Captain Denim

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1.
Cheerleader 03:48
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2.
Spree 04:56
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3.
Just Another Dream 05:31
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4.
Silver Apples 01:30
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5.
That's Wow 03:46
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6.
People, Why're You Weeping? 05:32
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7.
Oceans So Deep 05:26
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8.
Take A Ride 03:51
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9.
Dog The Bone 01:58
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10.
Motels On My Mind 04:59
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11.
Hippy Dribble 04:02
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12.
Lurve 01:44
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13.
Filthy 00:33
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14.
Eskimo 07:25
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15.
Last Time 04:18
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16.
Crayon Cafe 03:08
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17.
Dying (So Long) 03:25
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18.
And So The Story Goes 03:39
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Originally released 1995

Track 1 recorded and mixed by John Hresc at Sun, Powerhouse and Rich studios, June 91 to Feb 92. Tracks 2-7 recorded and mixed by Michael Levis at Troy Horse 1990-1992. Tracks 8-11 recorded 27th June 1990 by Brian Goodsworth at Troy Horse. Track 12, 13, 14 (Eskimo 1 & 2) recorded and mixed by Michael Lewis at Troy Horse, Dec 90 to March 92. Tracks 15-18 recorded by Michael Levis at Troy Horse Studio, Newtown, Winter 1991.

Eskimo, Eskimo 2 and a new mix of Cheerleader appears on Plunderers’ Banana Smoothie Honey (hac93). Tracks 8-11 previously released on Wild Strawberri 12” EP. Tracks 15-18 previously released on Captain Denim’s Fade 10” EP.

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In Sydney during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Plunderers were quite a prolific band. So much so, that they formed two spin-off bands: Hippy Dribble and Captain Denim. Stevie Plunder, Nic Dalton and Geoff Milne released two records under the name Hippy Dribble - Wild Strawberri and “Cheerleader'” and one 10 inch by Captain Denim titled Fade. All these songs plus the new Silver Apples recordings can now be found on the one disc - everything the Plundees recorded for their two spin-off bands.

Hippy Dribble

Released on their own label Trip Records, Wild Strawberri contained a very early Plunderers song "Take a Ride" which was one of the first songs that Stevie and Nic wrote together. "Motels On My Mind" dated back to their days with Get Set Go (a folk-pop outfit with Stevie on bass, Nic on drums, future Falling Joy Suzie Higgie on guitar and her sister Jenny Higgie on Casio keyboard). The two remaining songs were written especially for Hippy Dribble.

Tom Morgan and Nic Dalton wrote “Cheerleader” for Hippy Dribble and was originally released on 7” (moo07) and cd (hac18) with b-sides “Eskimo”, “Eskimo 2”, “Lurve” and “Filthy”.

The Plunderers recorded six songs (tracks 2-7) that were going to follow on from "Cheerleader" on a proposed 12 inch mini-album (in their lifetime, the Plunderers never released a cd: only 7, 10 and 12 inchers). Apart from new songs like "Spree" and "That's Wow" were another two songs dating back to the Canberra days of Get Set Go in 1984 , Stevie's "Just Another Dream" and "Oceans So Deep" (co-written with Suzie Higgie).

Special guests included The Smudge Choir on backing vocals and Half A Cow Store work experience teen Nyree Webster on the flute. Because of Half A Cow changing their distribution from Regular to Mercury, the recordings didn't surface until March 1995 under the title Silver Apples and included all the Hippy Dribble recordings (as well as Captain Denim's Fade).

Captain Denim

In the winter of 1991 the Plunderers recorded four songs at Troy Horse: “Last Time” and “Dying (So Long)” from Get Set Go days and “Crayon Cafe” and “And So The Story Goes” from 84-85 Plunderers. The band gave themselves appropriate pseudonyms (Geoff Jag, Nic Lee, Stevie Leisuremaster) and, when they rung up Michael the engineer to find out his last name for the credits, they were very surprised that it was actually Levis!

Fade was released on 10 inch under their own Vest Records banner, each cover with its own denim star (glued on by Stevie, Geoff and the Plunderers manager Caroline Pegram; jeans supplied by the girls from North Sydney Girls High) and hit the stands sometime in mid-1992. Like all of the Plunderers records, the 10 inch is now deleted but all the songs appear on the Silver Apples compilation.

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released July 23, 2021

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Half A Cow is an independent record label from the East Coast of Australia. Run by musician Nic Dalton, Half A Cow has been releasing music since 1990. More releases can be found at viasatellitedownloads.bandcamp.com

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