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    Gatefold wallet includes 16-song disc and 6-panel insert with lyrics and historical liner notes. A thorough and entertaining package documenting the beginnings of The Pleasures Pale.

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1985 demo, digitized from 4-track cassette, restored, edited, mixed and mastered / 48k-24bit file

lyrics

How the evening moans
And nestles around your lovely body
How the evening floats
And settles in your empty room

Sultry shadows loom On a bare and lonesome wall
Washed with Coltrane Lush Life songs
Hush, hush, hush
These are strangely frightful nights
In this town we are in this room
We lie listening as the piano moves
Tears from a grieving face are tears from a leaving face
Happy love ghosts at play In my empty room

Up the stairs in the old house
Creaking steps seem to say
It's a wine and soft-bed delusion
And I'm afraid I'm prey
These are strangely frightful nights
In this town we are in this room
We lie listening as the piano moves
Tears from a grieving face are tears from a leaving face
Happy love ghosts at play In my empty room

And, oh, it haunts me now
And, oh, it haunts me now
Tears from a grieving face are tears from a leaving face
You said "love" in my empty room

In my empty room; it haunts me now
In my empty room; it haunts me now
In my empty room; it haunts me now
In my empty room; it haunts me now
In my empty room; it haunts me now
In my empty room; it haunts me now
In my empty room; it haunts me now
In my empty room; it haunts me now

credits

from Daily Living Is a Herculean Art, released December 1, 2020
voices – jeffrey bright
acoustic guitar – mitchell swann
double bass – luis lerma
keyboard – jeffrey bright
additional sounds & effects – jeffrey bright

words – bright
music – swann & lerma

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The Pleasures Pale was an influential indie quartet based in Dayton Ohio active from 1985 to 1987. Oft-compared to anglo groups such as The Smiths, TPP's influences can now be read as more diverse — taking cues from postpunk, rockabilly, swing, Motown and Dayton funk. A band for misfits, their extensive, lyric-driven output sought to light a way through the rust belt's post-industrial bleakness. ... more

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