The 5.6.7.8's

Nutrocker b/w Chopped Onion Boogie

scum stats: probably 200 pressed

As the swallows yearly return to Capistrano, I can think of no more a delightful way to chart the passage of time than a new (to me) 45 from the 5.6.7.8's. Seems like they've been teasing out these markedly limited slabs for the past couple trips round the sun, not easily found here in the States, but absolutely enticing when I can get my mitts on 'em.

Covering Tchaikovsky, via Kim Fowley through B. Bumble and the Stingers, and nothing could feel more exact and expected in the world than this. As an interpolation of the march from "Nut Cracker" the version here (with some swang on it) is arranged in just a way that I didn't not catch the reference point at first. But upon digging in and further listens...it comes off as whimsical and smart without pandering...a staple of the 5.6.7.8's act if there ever was one.

Flip side of "Chopped Onion Boogie" is a Ronnie Fujiyma original and just a salve for the soul. Could not be more pleasing.

Listening to new songs from the 5.6.7.8's this far into my life I can't help but steal John Peel's quote about the Fall, along the lines of "the worst part about dying will be that the Fall release an album two months later" and I'm just gonna keep my fingers crossed that I get to keep on enjoying these yearly 7" punctuations from the band for at least another decade.