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Spiritualized/Mercury Rev – Good Dope, Good Fun/Boy Peel Out
label: Greenpeace Records ApS
year: 1993
side a: Spiritualized – Good Dope, Good Fun
side b: Mercury Rev – Boy Peel Out
www.spiritualized.com | www.myspace.com/spiritualized
www.mercuryrev.com | http:www.myspace.com/mercuryrevmusic

Split single by two great bands. Don’t remember where I got it from or when, but I probably bought it without even listening to it because, well, it’s Spiritualized AND Mercury Rev, innit? Old Mercury Rev, too, with David Baker singing. The single was released coinciding with Spiritualized’s 1993 Electric Mainline Tour, but, more importantly, all profits from its sales went/are going (?) to Greenpeace, which at the time was campaigning (to no avail) against the opening of THORP, a nuclear waste facility at Sellafield. It comes in a nice little booklet with artwork by both bands.

Video of Spiritualized playing “Lay Back in the Sun” live (which is another version of “Good Dope, Good Fun”).

And here’s a video of my favourite ever Mercury Rev song, “Carwash Hair”.