A short and sweet post today.
H-Sallows/Sputnik Sweetheart: the Blue-very label from Japan keeps surprising us with wonderful releases. This is a split tape by two Japanese bands. Each of them contribute 3 songs of pure pop joy. Something that caught my attention is that the wonderful Miki Hirose plays most of the instruments and sings on H-Shallows. Then Sputnik Sweetheart covers the Would-Be-Goods. It is quite a release!
The Late Innings: this is the solo project of Vincent Sinex from Fullerton, California. His latest song is called “Last Resort” and it is a fine slice of new-wave influenced pop, a bit like My Favorite. First time I am listening to him and there are more releases on his Bandcamp so I will keep myself busy.
The Reds, Pinks & Purples: it never stops. All the time there are new songs by Glenn Donaldson jangly pop project. By now he should have released like three albums, or more! His latest are three songs, “The Biggest Fan”, “Last Summer in a Rented Room” and “Keep Your Secrets Close”. All very good!
Say Sue Me: the Busan band will be releasing a 7″ on October 4th with two songs, “Your Book” and “Good People”. So far we can only preview the first one and that’s fine as we know the band produces quality pop. And this song is not the exception. Looking forward to this one!
Jetstream Pony: lastly the Brighton band is back with a cover of “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by the Blue Oyster Cult. But that’s not all, they also have a new demo song called “Mitte” that sounds superb. Is the band preparing a new release? I don’t know, but I hope so!
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Suntime Glorious is a band I would love to get in touch. The two songs I’ve heard by them, “I’m Too Good” and “Sexual Health” are, pardon the pun, glorious. The female vocals, the melodies, the lyrics, everything combines perfectly. It is so hard to grasp why they weren’t more popular in their day. But as I know very little about them, I’m hoping that with this post I’ll be able to learn more details about them.
I don’t own the record (yet) but Discogs has it listed which helps. It is not fun that the record didn’t have a sleeve. It seems it just came on simple white paper disco sleeve. That is not what they deserved. It came as a 12″ vinyl on Infidelity Records with the catalog INF 142. I do see other records listed on this label but they have other catalog format. It must be just a coincidence the label’s name? I wonder.
I am not very hopeful at this point of finding any leads. But one has to try.
The record had 4 songs, “I’m Too Good For You” and “Sexual Health” on the A side and “Never Belong” and “Night Or Day” on the B side. The songs are credited to R. Taylor and the band. There are no compilation appearances listed.
I don’t even know in what country this was released. Most probably the UK, but I can’t confirm it in any way. I see the band being mentioned on a few Japanese sites, but they have no information. I see also that their name is being used to describe some bands in eBay, but I don’t see how they compare. Suntime Glorious sound is quite different to the bands they are being compared.
I try to find too who R. Taylor might be. But my luck is nonexistent. I really hope I can find out who were behind the band and ask many many questions. Maybe some of you came across them back in the early nineties? Who remembers them?
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3 Responses to “:: Suntime Glorious”
hi, this was put out to record companies as a demo really, richard taylor of fleckney, leics. LE8 england was a friend and is no doubt still local. the 4 track is indeed excellent and they paid a fair bit back in 1992 to record it professionally and got the female vocalist in at a price to guest on the track. the village of fleckney produced a few good bands actually between the late 80’s and early 90’s all gigged the local scene but none of them got signed or went anywhere really and all band members took jobs and kind of faded away with the bands as a side project/hobby, with the exception of black carrot fronted by ollie betts, they have had lots of airplay and a few albums but its krautrock oddball stuff compared to this suntime 12 inch. i have the single in mint condition if interested let me know. i know its worth a bit and sought after and there are a lot that ‘want’ it on discogs, so i’ll listen to offers but not silly ones. kind regards.
i have a copy on suntime glorious for sale
As far as I heard they recorded about 20 songs and burned them on cd-r. Unfortunately, I haven’t managed to track it down for more than 20 years now. Does it really exist? Maybe anyone of the old mates knows more about it.