Side A
Artist	Song
Chills	Rolling Moon
Shoes This High	The Nose One
Sneaky Feelings	Won't Change
Roadrunners	LSD
Bats	The Black And The Blue
Bailter Space	Shine
Simple Image	Spinning Spinning Spinning
Gremlins	Listen To Me
Marie And The Atom	Isol
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Bluestars	Social End Product
Brunettes	Dancefloor
Straitjacket Fits	Sparkle That Shines
Chicks	Rebel Kind
Gordons	Spik And Span
Split Enz	I Got You
The Clean	Some One
Deep Set	Living It Down
Look Blue Go Purple	Grace
Tall Dwarfs	Beauty
Clevedonaires	He's Ready

Comment:

The first in this series was The Golden Hour Of Swedish Pop.Not knowing I was going to follow it with further country compilations it lacks the epithet Earglobe Part 1 but in effect that's what it is.I have a special affection for New Zealand as it is my father's homeland.Musically I think it has produced some singular talents,notably the Chills for immaculate pop gorgeousness and the Tall Dwarfs for venturing into every musical garden and stealing the best flowers.If one band could be cited as influencing the Elephant 6 collective it would be them.Delving back into the sixties the Bluestars wrote Social End Product,New Zealand's answer to the Who's My Generation.It boils with bile,a real sheepscarer.Matching anything the Crystals did is the Rebel Kind which I've heard tell is the only decent thing the Chicks recorded.So be it,just savour it and tell Spector to take out the trash.And while we're on the subject of the gunslinging producer I'm sure he must have had spectral involvement with the Brunnettes.It's pure Spector.I know this isn't an all embracing selection,there's no Verlaines or Jean-Paul Sartre Experience and very little modern stuff bar the Brunettes,but it has several tracks I think every Kiwi would insist on being in this all too short mix.

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