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Released: Jan 1, 2010
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  • Genre: Alternative / Comedy / Pop Punk

    Location Birmingham,, UK

    Profile Views: 36794

    Last Login: 7/23/2011

    Member Since 7/3/2005

    Website theparsnips.com

    Record Label Confused by Geese ..<a href="http:

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Hello we are The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think Tank Revival - a collective of Brummies. We believe Scrabble should be on the national curriculum, tractors are sexy and dancing like a trout is sensible at weekends... Tanks.. Tanks are massive things and are hard to describe; they have turrets and tracks they are tanks... Goldfish: buy them at fairs from a man who doesn't care about your lost dog.. Take them home on the bus... Knock on your mom and dad's door..... about four times should suffice.. and say, "I've got these", pointing at the fish.. "where's Barney?".. (Barney is the dog)... "I lost him in the park - he chased after a squirrel...So I got you these fish.".. God knows what happens next... The goldfish might have an inkling though...both of them... ******MORE FREE TUNES*******http://www.theparsnips.com.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    Max "The Love" Ego - Up front and in your face, slightly overweight. Who said that harsh comment about David Vine?.. Franklin Startshiphead - Are these pants tight enough for the rhythm guitar section?.. Tom "Tom Boing" - Hides behind things in the back and clutches small sticks. A huge Charlie Chaplin fan. Models his life on the silent movie era... Mr Slop-Macabre - Sculpturist, collects photos of missing persons and hamster skins... The Rock - Likes wrestling with men and killing vegetation with his bare hands... Alfred Astaire - Dancing fuzzy reed saxual healing specialist. Developed a form of perpetual motion using only 2 shake and vac containers... Kenneth Subtraction - Multi-funktional humanoid unit with optional Y front attachment. Can you feel the force?.. The G - Vole-driven part-timer... Archie Gemmil - Outstanding Efforts in the 1978 World Cup... Andy Peters - Prawn Attack... Roy Chadwick - Developed the Lancaster Bomber...

  • Influences

    Confused by Geese, Attacked in the Car Park by Women, Little Car Big Truck, Are you the Ugandan Goat of Death?, Billy Ocean, Traffic Jam Misery, Applause for my Famous Father, Captain Beefheart, Kate Bush, Frank Zappa, The John Bryant Quartet, Glen Miller, Frank Starshiphead and The Asteroid Belters, Electric!Milkshake, Carol Vorderman, Salt'n'Pepper, Joy Division.

  • Sounds Like

    Reviews.. Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think Tank - (Revival) - "Business Ducks".. Listen: http://www.theparsnips.com.. Tracklist:.. 1. Fish & Chips.. 2. Hairdressing Shop.. 3. Birmingham Sealife Centre.. 4. International Non-vacuuming Day.. 5. The Relaxing Sound. . ... 6. Business Ducks.. 7. Trout.. 8. Brand New Dog.. 9. Gas Bill.. 10. Cheese.. 11. Botulism.. 12. Rowley Regis (3.2 on the Richter Scale).. 13. Tractor Love (v 20.09).. ..BlueWhale.... Primarily an astounding barrage of nonsensical whimsy, the GPLTT(R) are a particular favourite of mine as a live act. They’ve managed to get themselves into a studio and recorded an album chock full of tongue in cheek… actually tongue in cheek is a wrongness, I have a feeling that songs like ‘Tractor Love’ are earnestly serious recollections of a joyous experience in the country with a David Brown. I can relate... Business Ducks is a true celebration of the normality of living in Birmingham. When I say normality, I don’t mean the mundane, wet weather, shaven headed yobs, being approached by tramps for nine pence and a fag butt normality that affects us all on a daily basis. I’m referring to the fact that life is filled with moments that we fail to recognise as worthwhile or noteworthy. The Parsnips have done exactly that. Or is it the opposite. Anyway, largely Birmingham centric with tales of the Sealife Centre, happenings in Victoria Square and major geo-movements in Rowley Regis, mixed with instructional musing on matters such as trout and household cleaning, the Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank (Revival) have updated the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band’s template with a distinct West Midlands slant... If I have one criticism, it’s that the recorded Parsnip does not have the tasty crunch of the live Parsnip. But, it’s a small issue. This album is still highly entertaining and a lot of fun. And any band that includes the lyric “I’m gonna do me some dark disaster, I’m gonna wear all your socks” can only get a massive clip art tick in the Stuka spreadsheet... ..DieShellsuit.... Listening to this album is like opening the door of an asylum. Strange smells, strange sights, strange sounds. Gibberish, noise. The inmates appear to be the result of genetic experiments with Peter Kay, Jasper Carrott, Frank Zappa, Jarvis Cocker and Half Man Half Biscuit. They sing of octopi with face of Sid James and attempting to pay bills with spiders. And there's the Dadaist masterpiece that is Trout (surely a long-lost Bonzos track). You may discard it within seconds. That's understandable. Stick with it, though, and you may find something. You might discard it as well, mind. File under cheesy listening... 6 out of 10.. ..Scene_Not_Heard.... by Art Bratt.. One of the few joys, and simultaneously a constant terror, of the Birmingham bus network is the possibility that you're journey will be in some part imposed upon by The Crazy Drunk Guy. Not the moronic Stella version looking for any reason to kick off, he's just annoying; I'm talking about that individual who has truly dedicated himself to the cause of absolute lunacy, surfing a wave of Special Brew past the rocks of incoherence to a bay of oddly verbose lucidity... And the line between absolute entertainment and fear is drawn quite simply - is he sitting next to you? The [GPLTTT(R)]'s new album Business Ducks finds The Crazy Drunk Guy most definitely by your side, enthusiastically regaling you with tall-tales of Birmingham and the oft overlooked idiosyncrasies that colour the everyday drag - Fish & Chips, getting a Brand New Dog, and the conundrum that is Cheese, for instance. Happily though, the GPL... are not about to explode from their funked up prog-pop into some demented angry beast if you let your guard down (except perhaps at the end of track 11, but then cows are a touchy subject for any right thinking person), so you're free to sit back and revel in their surreal musings... Ably pilfering from the whole gamut of musical styles with no little panache, and taking a kind of whimsical approach to lyrics reminiscent of folk like John Shuttleworth and John Hegley, The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-tank (Revival) have in Business Ducks assembled a carnival of an album that, though it may not resonate with you on any deeper level, will certainly bring a bit of fun to the top-deck every now and then. And at £1.70 a trip nowadays, who wouldn't want that?

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