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Compilation

Recorded
1985-1987
Released

The album title is a mouthful but 2013’s Me Want Me Get Me Need Me Have Me Love is the one release needed to get the full mid-1980s recorded legacy of New Zealand’s Bird Nest Roys, consisting of an album and an EP both titled after the band as well as a couple of singles, like a cover of the Hollies’ “Bus Stop.” While the sextet’s easy singalong grace and slightly rougher sonic edges mark them as a Flying Nun act, the sextet often inhabit a lyrical world of their own, as songs like “Five Weetabix and Toast,” “Wads Of Pork Fat” and the title track all demonstrate.

Ned Raggett

Suggestions
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Southeast of Saturn

Various Artists
Thermos cover

Thermos

Bailter Space
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Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub
Electricity cover

Electricity

Peter Jefferies
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Lived to Tell

Eleventh Dream Day
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Rev

Ultra Vivid Scene
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Silent Alarm

Bloc Party