Outer Limits Recordings - 01- $20 Dollar Bill

Описание: Recorded in Doylestown, PA August 2010

Originally Released by True Panther Sounds

Lyrics:

I pulled up the car feeling queasy
Where all the people rock
And what did i see there before me
Beside some bubblegum
I could go to a church
Or even see a doctor
But only the Devil knows
Exactly what i'm after

CHORUS:

The cosmic stuff
Calls my bluff
Even better still
Heavens above
You know i'm in love with that
20 Dollar Bill

Now i can stop all the shaking
Once i get my fix
I do whatever it takes me
To get my medicine
I said this must be a gift from God
You know he likes me
But if he knew what i'll spend it on
It cant be

CHORUS:

The cosmic stuff
Calls my bluff
Even better still
Heavens above
I cant get enough of that
20 Dollar Bill

From Sam Mehran's first OLR Double LP Release,

OLR - Singles, Demos & Rarities 2007-2010

Video is on youtube as well somehwere.

"OLR is one of several artistic monikers adopted by prodigiously talented songwriter and bedroom pop pioneer Sam Mehran - an artist with which we have been fascinated for some time and from whom the world will be hearing brand new music soon. Before that, however, this new compilation, released on double LP in a one-time run of 500 copies, documents one of the most prolific creative periods in his career so far, pulling together twenty solid gold pop nuggets from various limited edition 7" and cassette releases scattered across some of the world's best underground labels (Olde English Spelling Bee, True Panther Sounds, Not Not Fun) as well as a host of hitherto unreleased material recorded in the same relentlessly inspired moment in time.

Christened after a popular 1970s sci-fi television programme, the songs of Outer Limits Recordings sound like surreal, alternate dimension AM radio smashes -- deliriously woozy power-pop earworms that are equal parts fantastically childlike and unsettling in the way their instantly memorable, candy-coated hooks evoke peculiar tales of longing, alienation and anxiety.
Long revered as a uniquely enigmatic and iconoclastic figure in the US underground by discerning publications, crate-diggers and contemporary artists alike but criminally over-looked by the wider media, this compilation represents the perfect portal into a special artistic imagination, a thrilling outsider-art artefact and even more reason for excitement regarding whatever Mehran dreams up next."

-Domino

RIP SAM MEHRAN