Song Cyclops Volume One, by Doleful Lions

Song Cyclops Volume One

by Doleful Lions

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1.	Charles Starkweather Vs Sasquatch 02:19	buy track
2.	My Summer With Ghosts 03:19	buy track
3.	Gimghoul Numerologist 04:30	buy track
4.	Spacecraft Marooned In The Gorillaworld 02:17	buy track
5.	The Red Top Lounge Flesheaters 03:21	buy track
6.	Demon Sounds 02:13	buy track
7.	Hercules In The Haunted World 03:13	buy track
8.	Sung Swan Song 03:07	buy track
9.	Now You’re A Witch! 03:58	buy track
10.	Turkish Star Wars 04:23	buy track
11.	Sparks Fly For Magnemite 02:24	buy track
12.	We Three Kings Of Orient Are 03:50	buy track
13.	Contact Beyond The Mirror Room 04:10	buy track
14.	A Walk In The Sun 03:01	buy track
15.	Deep Inside The Genie’s Lamp 03:29	buy track
16.	Chinese Rockets 03:52	buy track
17.	Baptized In Bees 02:22	buy track
18.	Jamie Conjures Demons 01:51	buy track
19.	Breather Bulls 04:45	buy track
20.	The Marauding Ghouls 02:04	buy track
21.	Goodnight, Graceland 02:52	buy track
22.	Charles Starkweather Versus Sasquatch 02:59	buy track

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A 22 track song cycle rereleased on Bandcamp almost exactly 22 years later.

I don’t know what to say about this album. It’s my very favorite Doleful Lions album and still a total mystery.

-Jonathan

Originally released on Parasol Records.

Gimghoul Numerologist? Turkish Star Wars? Titles like these could only portend another set of retro fantasiac pop from this Chapel Hill quintet. For album No. 3, Song Cyclops Volume One, high-strung Alex Chilton aspirations have been pushed aside and Bob Dylan dragged into the opium den; the 22-track result is a beautifully bizarro indie-rock Narnia that dead-rings a lost Radiohead soundtrack to Dungeons and Dragons. One of the most satisfyingly original albums of the year. -Gear Magazine

Sixties revisited by modern-day spacers. This is what the Beach Boys 20/20 might have sounded like if you heard it under sedation, from down a corridor, with the pitter-patter of light drizzle in the background. For Doleful Lions, tape hiss isnt a statement or a handicap, its another instrument. A must for wanderers, tender souls and those who like to look at the world with a lazy smile through a light layer of mist.--Uncut Magazine

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released September 26, 2000

The Doleful Lions were Dave Jackson, Kurt Mueller, Aynsley Pirtle, Jonathan Scott, Amy Smith

All songs recorded at Camelot Kings Four
In the mirror room.

All songs written and recorded by Jonathan Scott.
Except number 12, trad. arr. by J. Scott

2000 Violet Cyclops Music (ASCAP)

Additional recording and production by David W. Jackson at the Muddle And Squelch Institute Of Phrenology.

Artwork by Jonathan Scott and Hal Mangold.

Drawings by Steele Savage.

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Doleful Lions Chicago, Illinois

Doleful Lions are one the great lost bands of modern times, its not an under achiever thing rather more that they’ve been constantly overlooked in favour of ensembles, fads and fashions less musically astute and considerably less talented, always occupying their own little orbit shying away from the various bandwagons that have come passing them by - Mark Barton (The Sunday Experience) ... more

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