The Whirlaway Sessions (20th Anniversary Alternative Mixes)

by Tadpoles

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1.	Frances The Dancer (Alien Mix) 05:10	lyrics	buy track
A see saw lets you float up  The water lets you slide  One after another  Get in line for the other side And your time is up  Put away your tin cup  Breathe in the sweet air  And take it in and feel it there  It's alien  Good times Just teach yourself the subjects  The moons are in your reach  Get out your favorite colors  Give all your sands a beach And your time is up  Put away your tin cup  Breathe in the sweet air  And take it in and feel it there  It's alien  Good times The ocean's getting deeper  From the drains you had to waste  The desert's just a little colder  From the nights you tried to chase When you taste the bitter  Taste that they left behind  Sip your favorite water  Refresh whats in your mind
2.	Lyman Bostock (Harvest Mix) 05:06	lyrics	buy track
Begging with a borrowed hand again Burning bridges, swimming rivers Building and breaking and fixing things You can never run from the devils in you But you can beat a path to my door When the running gets the better of you Rest yourself a while, sit a spell And you know that tomorrow is a new day It's all in how you harvest me It's all in how you harvest me It's all in how you harvest me It's up to you, how you harvest me Betting on a borrowed hand again Desert sands in your barren palm Your rivers dried out into the seas Brother, don't you curse my name I haven't made peace with parts of my past Or with those ghosts with halos round their eyes And you hope that tomorrow is a new day It's all in how you harvest me It's all in how you harvest me It's all in how you harvest me It's up to you, how you harvest me It's all in how you harvest me It's all in how you harvest me It's all in how you harvest me It's up to you, how you harvest me
3.	Crash Of The Bug (Moonlight Mix) 07:58	lyrics	buy track
You're driving in your car  Not going very far  A sunday sunny drive  Feels good to be alive Your friends are in the back  Ask you where you're at  Some take the wrong turn  The moonlight tavern burns At the bottom of the hill  A wooden house is filled  You've got to climb the stairs  Your friends are unaware Just make one more call  To the pictures on the wall  This dream will come to pass  You'll sleep in beds of grass
4.	Jimmy Colored Glasses (Make It Good Mix) 05:18	lyrics	buy track
Never thought that you'd feel so sad  Never wanted anything you had  And its time that you learned to see  It's enough to just believe We all will pass this way  No one makes us stay  If there's any way to make it good  I think that you should
5.	Whirlaway (Dreamtigers Mix) 09:34	lyrics	buy track
From temperate climes, through rain, set sail  Ribbons of water, they sparkle and spangle  In the coming sun, falling through liquid streets  Into the jungle and out of the rain Steal into dreamtiger eyes and slowly leave behind  Domino days of time, inches of distance  Slip past the double-edged sword of building  The cost of building more, or of just maintaining  Feel the dreamtigers prowling free and easy  But ribbons of memory still tumble and tangle  And turn into questions, "Can your friends trust you now?" Only dreamtigers never have a need to change In time, as night declines, fleeting and fading  Ribbons of laughter, they jingle and jangle  And all the dream-tigers retreat back into the trees  With green, smiling eyes, at the coming of the day
6.	Dusty Baker (Grassy Mix) 03:26	lyrics	buy track
When you are feeling low  Let the juices flow away  When you are moving slow  Take a ride down the drain I don't have the time to wait for you  And I don't care if you stay  Just don't hang around and blow my brain  Can't you break the clock today When you are feeling low  Get down on the grass and lay  The snake is gold and he follows you  The poison takes your cares away When you are feeling low  Let the juices flow away  When you are moving slow  Take a ride down the drain  Down the drain  Down the drain  Down the drain
7.	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Easy Chair Mix) 05:52	lyrics	buy track
Clouds so swift  Rain won’t lift  Gate won’t close  Railings froze  Get your mind off wintertime  You ain’t goin’ nowhere  Whoo-ee! Ride me high  Tomorrow’s the day  My bride’s gonna come  Oh, oh, are we gonna fly  Down in the easy chair! I don’t care How many letters they sent  Morning came and morning went  Pick up your money  And pack up your tent  You ain’t goin’ nowhere  Whoo-ee! Ride me high  Tomorrow’s the day  My bride’s gonna come  Oh, oh, are we gonna fly  Down in the easy chair! Buy me a flute  And a gun that shoots  Tailgates and substitutes  Strap yourself  To the tree with roots  You ain’t goin’ nowhere  Whoo-ee! Ride me high  Tomorrow’s the day  My bride’s gonna come  Oh, oh, are we gonna fly  Down in the easy chair! Genghis Khan  He could not keep  All his kings  Supplied with sleep  We’ll climb that hill no matter how steep  When we get up to it  Whoo-ee! Ride me high  Tomorrow’s the day  My bride’s gonna come  Oh, oh, are we gonna fly  Down in the easy chair!
8.	Smile If You've Crossed Over (Other Side Mix) 07:56	lyrics	buy track
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9.	Sunrise Ocean Bender (Golden Mix) 06:54	lyrics	buy track
Nothing to believe in  Nothing worth seeing  It's ok The dunes are frozen  Throw rocks in the ocean  The waves are astounding  The heart keeps on pounding  It's ok Your arms are golden  Your sunlights are broken  When night is falling  You hear me calling Can you tell me how to see  Can you tell me how to look  I can't find my way inside  I haven't read the book  It's ok The sunrise ocean bender  The sunrise ocean bender
10.	Horse And Buggy (Mr. Longtail Mix) 13:07	lyrics	buy track
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For the 20th anniversary of the release of Tadpoles' final studio album, "Whirlaway" Bakery Records has released an alternate version of the entire album, complete with previously unheard and unavailable alternate mixes, most of which were mixed by Gene Holder of the seminal 1980's college pop rock band "The dB's" Tadpoles ended up shelving these mixes for a version of the album primarily mixed by Pete Drivere back in the confines of his gritty Youngstown, Ohio warehouse studio "Ampreon Recorder" which is where most of the album was originally tracked. The band preferred the sound of the studio for their vision of "Whirlaway." After 20 years, the alternate mixes of Whirlaway contained here reveal different featured parts and a look at the album from an alternate perspective.

“Aural shimmering starburst music..” ~ Greg Wallace, 2019

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released August 2, 2019

Whirlaway was engineered and mixed by Pete Drivere at Ampreon Recorder in Youngstown, Ohio in 1998 and 1999.
Additional overdubs and mixes were done at Jolly Roger Studio in Hoboken, NJ by Gene Holder (the dB's).
"Horse and Buggy" was recorded and originally mixed at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan, New York by Kramer
Album artwork and design was created by Ann Manca.
Mastered by Todd Parker at dbs digital in Hoboken, NJ.

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Tadpoles Hoboken, New Jersey

Tadpoles, based in Hoboken, NJ, disbanded in 2000 after releasing 4 critically acclaimed studio albums, 1 live album and 1 E.P. all on their own Bakery Records label (except for their last studio album, Whirlaway, which was released on Australia's Camera Obscura Records.) The group was formed by vocalist/guitarist, Todd Parker and original drummer, Michael Kite Audino in New York City in 1990. ... more