The Furniture (part 7: the bureau) by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.

The Furniture (Los Muebles) is a traditional northern Spanish sea shanty from the Asturias region.

It tells a tale of how a dysfunctional family of linguistically challenged fishermen lost and then found some furniture following a flood, and the consequences.

Linguistically challenged means, in this case, they were not terribly bright and could not even speak their own language very well.

The Spanish version has been loosely translated into English by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.

From an idea by Daniel Richardson.

This song and its anomalies of translation make a great teaching aid, if one happens to have students learning English or Spanish.

THE FURNITURE (PART 7: THE BUREAU)

Aha! La oficina.

La oficina ha sido picotiada por muchos pollos

Y la puertas se han caido.

La oficina ha sido picotiada por muchos pollos

Y la puertas se han caido.

Ah, the bureau.

The bureau has been pecked by a great many chickens

And the doors have fallen off.

The bureau has been pecked by a great many chickens

And the doors have fallen off.

Eran una cortina agredable del marron.

Pense que eran horrible!

Usted tio el es porke usted neude espantoso.

That’s a shame, they were an agreeable shade of brown.

I thought they were horrible!

You would and that's because you smell appalling, uncle.

Music and lyrics: A. Richardson/G. Davies

Rhythm guitar and Spanish voices: Q.Wim Lijkkes

Lead guitar and English voices: Yuri Nation

Originally released December 3, 2012

Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One 2012.

Copyright © 2012 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 2012 Explicit Music.

The full length version of The Furniture/Los Muebles is here:

https://soundcloud.com/wud-records/the-bastard-sons-of-dennis-the-furniture-los-muebles

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-furniture-los-muebles

The Furniture (part 1: overture) by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.

The Furniture (Los Muebles) is a traditional northern Spanish sea shanty from the Asturias region.

It tells a tale of how a dysfunctional family of linguistically challenged fishermen lost and then found some furniture following a flood, and the consequences.

Linguistically challenged means, in this case, they were not terribly bright and could not even speak their own language very well.

The Spanish version has been loosely translated into English by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.

From an idea by Daniel Richardson.

This song and its anomalies of translation make a great teaching aid, if one happens to have students learning English or Spanish.

THE FURNITURE (PART 1: OVERTURE)

Donde esta mis muebles de los hermanos?

Donde esta mis muebles de los hermanos?

Se pierden, se pierden

Where is the furniture of my brother?

Where is the furniture of my brother?

It is lost, it is lost.

Donde la guaderropa, la tabla?

Donde la silla, es banera?

Donde la gabineta, la oficina

Se pierden, se pierden

Los incontrareos

Where is the wardrobe, the table?

Where is the chair, the bathtub?

Where are the cabinet and the bureau?

They are lost, they are lost.

We will find them!

Creo que esta perdido por siempre

No! Los incontrareos

But I believe they are lost forever!

No! We will find them!

Donde esta mis guaderropa de los hermanos?

Donde esta mis guaderropa de los hermanos?

Where is the wardrobe of my brother?

Where is the wardrobe of my brother?

Music and lyrics: A. Richardson/G. Davies

Rhythm guitar and Spanish voices: Q.Wim Lijkkes.

Lead guitar and English voices: Yuri Nation.

Originally released November 10, 2012.

Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One 2012.

Copyright © 2012 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 2012 Explicit Music.

The full length version of The Furniture/Los Muebles is here:

https://soundcloud.com/wud-records/the-bastard-sons-of-dennis-the-furniture-los-muebles

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-furniture-los-muebles

Pieces of Me by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.

This song was written on Sunday 24th October 1993. It was first played by The Bastard Sons of Dennis on Exmouth beach in the early summer of 1994. It has never been performed live by our gruesome twosome as it has a slow tempo and a sensitive feel, which would be incongruous in one of their high-energy live performances.

This song has a long history and we all felt it deserved to be included on this album. It was performed at the spontaneous gathering of The Bastard Sons of Dennis in May 1998. For a complete change, it features Yuri on bass rather than guitar. This is as an echo of the 1998 jam session. It was recorded at 432Hz instead of 440Hz.

PIECES OF ME

I tell you but you don't want to know

You made your mind up you want to go

But then from the cold icy stare come the words "I care"

I care

I don't want to wait around this time

I don't want to wait for things to go wrong

I've waited too long

I've waited too long

I need to have you now

I need your release

I need your peace before I tear myself in two

I want to want you now

I want that release

I want your peace

Before I tear myself in two

Pieces of me, pieces of you

We're beads on a worry bead threading us through

I want your commitment

I want your delicate hand in mine

Oh babe please say yes this time

Oh babe please say yes this time

Words and music by A. Richardson.

This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.

Original release date: 15th April 2017.

Performers:

Q.Wim Lijkkes - guitars, vocals

Yuri Nation - bass

Copyright © 2017 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1993 Explicit Music.

Horsemon by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.

In the summer of 1992, The Bastard Sons of Dennis convened and fooled around in a recording studio. Q plucked the strings of Nicodemus and Yuri operated the sequencer. This is the result.

It's a curious piece of music as everything is improvised. Q came up with the main guitar theme as Yuri added new parts to the sequencer loop. Parts were dropped out, dropped back in, and faders and other knobs on the mixing desk were twiddled.

Horsemon may sound like a Jamaican word, meaning 'postman', but actually came about due to restrictions of length on a filename. In the very beginning, our gruesome twosome were searching for a name for themselves. They used their combined Chinese astrological signs, which resulted in 'HorseMonkey', the name that appeared on the poster for their very first live performance. However, only eight characters were permitted by the old Atari Cubase at Silent Running Studios, so the file was truncated and saved as 'Horsemon'.

This is probably the earliest recording of The Bastard Sons of Dennis to exist anywhere on the planet. As such, we felt it was worth including on this album as a bonus track. It is also quite unusual to hear live jamming on a sequencer, and Q's guitar is fabulous, so despite the various messes contained within, we felt the track possesses plenty of artistic merit.

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All music by G. Davies/A. Richardson.

Copyright © 2017 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 Explicit Music.

Performers:

Q.Wim Lijkkes - guitar

Yuri Nation - sequencer, synths, mixing

Salvaged from cassette and remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Ten Years Later by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.

Ten Years Later is an original song from the pen of Andy and was written many years ago, with the duo first performing it back in 1994. Is this track about uncertainty? Is God an atheist? Are your flies still undone?

During the recording of Ten Years Later, our engineers and the band together felt that the nature and subject of the song might be a scene between two friends having a chat over coffee. We set about creating a cafe scene, and thanks to those wonderful providers of great sound samples at soundjay.com we have achieved a pleasing result. The adlib voices from Q.Wim and Yuri were all done in one take, and it was the first as it happens.

There's a dark-ish video (of a pretty ordinary performance) of this track here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSkIapo7Is

TEN YEARS LATER

When I was just thirteen

She said that I could take her...

Where could I take her?

And now it's ten years later...

Is it over?

Tell me when it's over...

Is it over?

I'd like to think it over...

I like to get the best of the changes

I'd like to get the best from the re-arranges

But if we get much closer

There's a danger we'll start over

Now I take it there's no-one left to shake you from your tree

Is it over?

I'd like to think it over...

Is it over?

I'd like to think it over...

I like to get the best of the changes

I'd like to get the best from the re-arranges

But if we get much closer

There's a danger I'll fall over

Now I take it there's no-one left to break you from that scene

Is it over?

Tell me when it's over...

Is it over?

I'd like to think it over...

Is it over?

Music and lyrics by A. Richardson.

This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.

Acoustic guitar, lead guitar to start, lead vocal and voices: Q. Wim Lijkkes

Acoustic guitar, lead guitar elsewhere and voices: Yuri Nation

Cafe sounds created courtesy of those fabulous people at Soundjay, please visit their website here: www.soundjay.com

Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 2017 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 Explicit Music.

Who Owns You Now by Watershed, from Watershed Live at The Cooperage 24/12/1990.

Written by Al Shalliker.

Copyright (c) Al Shalliker 1990.

WATERSHED

Jo Atkins – vocals, percussion

Mark Flack – bass

Dave Gregory – Fender Rhodes, keys

Tony Gullis – drums, percussion

Al Shalliker – guitars, vocals

Steve Smallwood – sound

This is a bootleg recording of the fabulous Plymouth reggae ensemble known as Watershed. This mix may have come straight off the desk as they were inclined to roll that way. The low hum from the cassette machine is somewhat ghastly, but the band mask it when they are playing.

As this is from a live performance, we left some of the gribulage between songs so you could get a flavour of the band. You might even be able to remember where you were and what you were dong on the night in question. Al, the main songwriter and guitarist, and Jo on vocals and percussion, were both highly charismatic individuals and the band always seemed to have a great rapport with the crowd wherever they played.

These are the last five tracks that the band played that night. The rest of the show was on another 90-minute cassette which was sadly stolen by someone who also loved Watershed’s music many years ago, so we no longer have that in our archives. Songs on that cassette included Judgement Level, Back Page Rage, It’s Not Yours, Saddest Letter, Purple Town, Fashion Conscious and some others.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/watershed

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/watershed/live-cooperage-24121990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13DknmiCstM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2slWp3l4WP4

https://myspace.com/watershedplymouth

http://www.bandmine.com/watershedplymouth

http://plymouthlivemusic.yolasite.com/past-bands.php

Wud: New Socks and Underwear (live) by Wud Records

Wud: Take It Or Leave It (live) by Wud Records

Wud: What's Going On (live) by Wud Records

Wud: Losing Your Grip (live) by Wud Records