The Miller's Daughter
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The Miller's Daughter is the third album released by Perth
band The Drones
. The album was also released as a limited (500 copies) vinyl edition and included an extra track, "Well Well Well".
On the record liner Liddiard provides the following description for each song:
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
band The Drones
The Drones
The Drones are an Australian rock group who rose to prominence during the early 2000s. They are influenced by a variety of bands and soloists including Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Bad Brains, Suicide, Green on Red, The Birthday Party, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Nina Simone.- The Sound...
. The album was also released as a limited (500 copies) vinyl edition and included an extra track, "Well Well Well".
On the record liner Liddiard provides the following description for each song:
- "Someone On Your Bond" - name kinda taken from a Blind Willie JohnsonBlind Willie Johnson"Blind" Willie Johnson was an American singer and guitarist, whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals....
song, the last contract you'll ever make.... so don't fuck it up. wait longWait Long by the River...Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By is the second album released by The Drones, a band formed in Perth and based in Melbourne....
sessions. - "Bird In A Church" - people who sing or have sung that dreadful song "sometimes I feel like a motherless child" should be killed. simple. came out as the A-side of a 7" issued by infidelity records 2003ish.
- "She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For" - regrets, I've had a few... Brendon plays bass, Crisso has pneumoniaPneumoniaPneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
. recorded September 2000 at Cavalier Studios in Research (???). then it just sat there. - "The Miller's Daughter" - I think a couple of these lines appear in a song "Death on the Installment Plan" by Louis Ferdinand Celine. kind of up back somewhere. it may be part of a real song, who knows. I made the rest up.
- "I Believe" - based on an Alan VegaAlan VegaAlan Vega For several years other sources stated that he was born in 1948 – see 'Myth' section is an American vocalist, primarily known for his work with electronic protopunk duo, Suicide...
song of the same name, Coltrane's 'love supreme', a Blind Willie JohnsonBlind Willie Johnson"Blind" Willie Johnson was an American singer and guitarist, whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals....
song I can't recall and a couple of lines some bloke was singing to himself on the street... Warren on drums, Rui on Hammond and Zipzichord, and me and James on guitars. recorded in our lounge room in east perthEast Perth, Western AustraliaEast Perth is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth CBD.Primarily an industrial area in the early twentieth century, it was the location of the East Perth gas works, East Perth Power Station , the East Perth railway yard, and East Perth engine sheds.A considerable...
1999. - "Meanstreak" - you can't put a .303.303 British.303 British, or 7.7x56mmR, is a .311 inch calibre rifle and machine gun cartridge first developed in Britain as a blackpowder round put into service in December 1888 for the Lee-Metford rifle, later adapted to use smokeless powders...
against your forehead without first removing your shoes, everyone knows that. here come the liesHere Come the LiesHere Come The Lies is the debut album released by Perth band The Drones in August, 2002 on Spooky Records. The album was selected as 3PBS 106.7FM's 'Feature Album of the Week', 3RRR FM's 'Album of the Week' and Beat Magazine's 'Album of the Week'....
sessions. - "Slammin' On The Brakes" - real showbiz this... I'm talking about the end. oldest trick in the book that one!! a Spencer JonesSpencer JonesSpencer Jones may refer to:*3282 Spencer Jones, an asteroid*Spencer Jones , a lunar impact crater*Spencer Cone Jones, former President of the Maryland State Senate*Spencer P. Jones, guitar player...
masterpiece. came out as a B-side to "Bird In A Church" around 2003?? - "Henry Ford" - unfinished recording of an unrecorded, finished song. containing the greatest analogyAnalogyAnalogy is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject to another particular subject , and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process...
for the eternal question in song today...... 'G.M.HHoldenGM Holden Ltd is an automaker that operates in Australia, based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufacturer. In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the U.S.-based General Motors in 1931...
or Henry FordFord AustraliaFord Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Geelong, Victoria, in 1925 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford USA...
?' - "Stop Dreaming" - name taken from John Lee HookerJohn Lee HookerJohn Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...
song called that or something else.... the best advice in the world really. wait longWait Long by the River...Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By is the second album released by The Drones, a band formed in Perth and based in Melbourne....
sessions. - "The City" - spot where tape runs out. here come the liesHere Come the LiesHere Come The Lies is the debut album released by Perth band The Drones in August, 2002 on Spooky Records. The album was selected as 3PBS 106.7FM's 'Feature Album of the Week', 3RRR FM's 'Album of the Week' and Beat Magazine's 'Album of the Week'....
sessions.
Track listing
All songs written by the Drones, except where noted.- "Someone On Your Bond" - 2:25
- "Bird In A Church" - 3:00
- "Well Well Well"
- "She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For" - 5:03
- "The Miller's Daughter" - 6:48
- "I Believe" - 6:58
- "Mean Streak" - 4:41
- "Slammin' On The Brakes" (Spencer P. JonesSpencer P. JonesSpencer P. Jones is a Melbourne based guitar player from Te Awamutu, New Zealand. He has been a member of The Emotional Retreads, Country Killed the Cow Penalty, Escape Committee, Cuban Heels, Beats Working, North 2 Alaskans, The Johnnys, The Beasts of Bourbon, Olympic Sideburns, Paul Kelly and The...
) - 5:07 - "Henry Ford" - 5:42
- "Stop Dreaming" - 4:17
- "The City" - 10:07
Personnel
- Gareth Liddiard - vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Rui Pereira - guitar, keyboards
- Fiona Kitschin - bass
- Christian Strybosch - drums
- James McCann - guitar
- Warren Hall - drums
- Brendon Humphries - bass
- Steve Hesketh - Hammond, Wurtilzer ("Stop Dreaming")