The History of Gardening was a strange little band from East
London. They had a revolving and revolting, constantly changing line up
of oiks, spotty Herbert's, vagabonds, itinerants,Zeppelin pilots,
visionary seers, reefer mystics and the odd person who could play an
instrument. A total lack of any ability didn't hold them back from under
achieving in the dark underbelly that was the underground, alternative
music scene under the bleak, miserable existence that was Thatchers
Britain. From 1984 till the early 90's they inflicted upon culture their
strange unholy ditties and bizarre tunes. They played regularly all
over London mainly for free and benefits for worthy causes. They were
more or less the house band for the Bikers pub The Greyhound in Lea
Bridge Rd ( why the bikers put up with them we shall never know ) and
played dozens of times at the Ruskin Arms, The Plough and Harrow and
The Royal Standard in Walthamstow amongst other dives where the
landlords didn't have a strict dress code and no sense of smell. They
played often with the old Anarcho Punk band The Assassins of Hope, and
later Swine and also members of THOG were also key elements in the
unique band Bunty Chunks...but since the only people who will read this
are the band themselves this is all rather pointless as you know all
that, don't you? By the mid 90's the band retreated to a commune in Papa
New Guinea to raise Llamas and soon after all contact with them was
lost... Culture , common decency and good taste all breathed a sigh of
relief with their departure from the music world. - Paul Orwell, the band's roadie.
PORK
1. The Raspberry Room
2. Replica
3. Inferno
4. Song for Llama
5. Black Feast and New Blood
6. Love In Vision
7. Percipient Deviator
8. With Electric Mice
9. Limpet
10. The Clock
11. Peel The Skin
12. Teddy’s Workshop
13. Extra track (untitled)
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JELLY
1. Pulphead
2. Family Butcher
3. Sucking Grandma to Sleep
4. Ugly
5. Post-war Funk
6. Personal Sex Bag . Sucking a Vein
7. Kent’s Floating Bodies
8. Flustering
9. You’re the One with the Spare Arm
10. Virshty Burde
11. Jelly Babies
12. Captain Scarlet
13. Atomic Punk Riot
14. Have You Ever Seen A Space Whale?
15. Surgical Appliance
16. Jelly Organ
17. Consume My Torso
18. Didpole
19. Untitled (“Turn it off!…”)
20. Untitled (“Once there was a way…”)
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DUCK
1. God’s Mum
2. Shake Me And I Giggle
3. Oh Sharon
4. Reg
5. Waxing Bimbo
6. Solid Fruitbat As It Gnaws The Floor
7. Bouncing Up And Down
8. Happy Horse
9. Almond Plating
10. Shape Up And Dance With Our Boys In ‘Nam
11. Captain Scarlet
12. Hallelujah
13. God’s Amazing Body
14. My Favourite Pigeon
15. Lowena
(including “What a Lot of Mr Men there are”)
16. Jelly Aid A Go Go
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CRUMBLE
1. Bag
2. Language
3. Perpetual Spinach
4. Sit Down and Be Moist
5. Raining Men
6. Everything Is Moving
7. Hoots! Pat Tings Squid
8. Zen Violence
9. The Snakey Dead
10. Going Up To People and Tinkling
11. Rasta-pasta-bait
12. The Golden Bum of Agrippa
a. Fruit
b. Boring Holes
c. Invocation of the Midwife and Saucer
13. A Lovers Dream
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TUNG DEPRESSOOOQ FIVE
1. Bitz of Milko
2. Wipe Eel Magnet
3. English Markell Pocket
4. Ratty and Vole
5. Fizzy Lego
6. Red Nose Day
7. Horned Blood
8. Who’s Green Now?
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FACK ORF
1. Bail’s Organ Music
2. Submarine Tongs
3. Food Street
4. Chairaplane
5. Freestyle Moose
6. Jack O’ Flaps
7. (this one is written as symbols making up an equation, hence the mp3 named as ‘the equation one’)
8. Var Ingen Buller
9. Weevil In The House
10. Pencil Case
11. Tip-toe Through Your Dog’s Lips
12. Your Own Loving Kanine
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OOKME HLU
1. The q.m.a.
2. I’m In With My In-Jokes
3. The Walking Fish
4. Inverted Commerce
5. Tucnak Kolik
6. Mental Sin Rutter
7. S.O. (Ten) G.U.T. Model
8. Pox Resistance
9. Male Car Patty
10. Lalucek Harada
11. SLON
12. Pray for the Processed Peas
13. Six Blind Disparities / I Vussered E. O. Nazzer
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If you want to listen to any of these albums, E-Mail me at yesitisme222@gmail.com (put Gardening as the subject so I know it's not spam)