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Festive IV

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

December 27, 2023
UK/NL CD-R self-released on Bandcamp

July 26, 2024
UK/NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. The Eternal Optimist
  2. Warm Bank
  3. Murder of Crows Parts 1-3
  4. Wrath of Dog
  5. Golden Redeemer
  6. Seasonal Chill

Credits
  • The Legendary Pink Dots

Artwork by Edward Ka-Spel


Notes

Lovingly home made CDR release featuring the Christmas Specials for 2022 & 2023 plus Hallowe’en 2023. Each copy individually prepared . Artwork by Edward Ka-Spel. Copies will begin shipping immediately after Christmas in order to avoid the chaotic seasonal mail.  Edition of 99.

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2023

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

December 1, 2023
UK MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Golden Redeemer
  2. Seasonal Chill

 


Credits
  • The Legendary Pink Dots

Notes

The tradition is maintained….

These tracks will also be released as part of Festive IV, a homemade CDR compilation of Christmas Specials from 2022 and 2023 as well as the Hallowe’en Special from 2023.


Lyrics

GOLDEN REDEEMER

The order was unambiguous…………
“Everything has to go… Every creature…. The great and the small. The microscopic, the gargantuan and everything in between. All that buzzes, all that swims, all that slithers, all that walks. Two legs, four legs, no legs, 100 legs. Everything….. make sure it’s painless”.
Officers Iz and Itso regretted their mission but Planet 51963 was truly a liability.
It seemed like such a bold experiment way back in the past. The benefits of a perpetual struggle. Dog eat dog, big fish eats small fish, while the bipeds ate everything………….Two legs, four legs, no legs, 100 legs.
But now those bipeds were looking at the stars, and they would surely get there and plant flags, exploit the new lands, dominate the new lands… Officers Iz and Itso took their orders from The Guardians whose sole purpose was to preserve balance in a fragile Universe. However, that curiously beautiful Planet 51963 now seemed destined to upset the balance and pollute that vast expanse.
An antidote had been prepared. The end would be swift and painless, beginning with the first sentient creature the officers encountered, then going on to sweep the globe. It was a bit like deleting a folder stuffed with corrupted files.
Two legs, four legs, no legs,100 legs.
Mournfully the pair stalked the forest. Officer Iz spoke into his communicator…..”Trees live. Shall we administer? ”
Central Command dismissed the idea, “We do not consider them to be sentient”
Grimly the officers walked on. There were flies, bees, ants and again the question was posed, “Shall we administer?”
“Negative!” came the curt reply. Then the opportunity arrived at last. A creature with four legs, long ears, a longer tongue and a special kind of self awareness. “The creature is sentient. Shall we administer?” barked Officer Iz.
“Affirmative” came the reply.
A golden retriever eccentrically named Captain Pondpot bounded towards the strange beings. Maybe they wanted to play…Officer Iz prepared to administer the potion to this rather affable creature. Then it happened. Pondpot…LICKED … the Officer’s glove.
Mother!! That first love!! Ice cream on the shores of the great sea of Planet Purity. Image after image. OVERWHELMING EMOTION…….”I cannot administer” wept Officer Iz.
His partner snatched the communicator. “Central Command.. Shall I administer?” he shouted. But there was no reply, only the bubbly sound of radiophonic sobbing.
Clearly a decision was needed.
In the meantime Pondpot had sunk his teeth into a disheveled and foul smelling tennis ball.
“I must administer”, Officer Itso muttered to no-one in particular.
Still, the good Captain prodded him with the ball – he wanted the officer to throw it.
Mother!!!! Sweet Selina on their wedding night! The nectar from God’s own garden…..An emotional EARTHQUAKE!!!
He could not administer.
At last the command came from the mother ship where a large audience had gathered around a screen.”Return to base” croaked the emotional commander.” It seems the experiment was a success after all”
Captain Pondpot chewed on a mud pie and bounded off in the direction of a distant light. A slightly disappointing day as no one had thrown the ball for him, but at least he had saved the World

HAPPY SOLSTICE EVERYONE EVERYWHERE.

The Legendary Pink Dots’ Hallowe’en Special 2023

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

October 21, 2023
UK MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Murder of Crows Parts 1-3
  2. Wrath of Dog

 


Credits

The Legendary Pink Dots


Notes

It feels like no fictional horror story can rival the daily nightmare of a planet tearing itself apart while swiftly burning itself out. What if Planet Earth IS the sole source of life in the Universe?
Still the sun rises……..

As with all of these holiday specials, this release was temporarily available and then withdrawn after about a month.

Close Your Eyes, You Can Be A Space Captain

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

December 1, 2022
NL CD (+ book) self-released on Korm Plastics

  1. Tower 6
  2. Golden Dawn
  3. Curious Guy
  4. Tower 1
  5. Apocalypse Then
  6. Poppy Day
  7. Guess The Politician
  8. The Month After
  9. Lisa’s Separation
  10. The Wedding
  11. The Collector
  12. Neon Gladiators
  13. Guardians Of Eden
  14. Lullaby For Charles’ Brother (1980 Version)
  15. Misfortunes

Credits
  • Roland Callaway
  • Barry Gray
  • Edward Ka-Spel
  • Phil Knight
  • Mick Marshall
  • Hans Meyer
  • Julia Niblock
  • Jason Salmon
  • Niels Van Hoorn
  • April White
  • Patrick White
  • Patrick Q Wright

Remastered by Raymond Steeg


Notes

This is the CD that comes with the book “Close Your Eyes, You Can Be A Space Captain – The Legendary Pink Dots in the 1980s”.  It features the Dots’ handpicked favourite tracks from the 1980s.

The book was written by Freek Kinkelaar and published by Korm Plastics.  The first edition is made of 499 copies.

Track 1 from Island Of Jewels
Track 2 from Asylum
Track 3 from Curious Guy
Track 4 from Chemical Playschool Volumes III / IV
Track 5 from Brighter Now cassette
Track 6 from The Tower
Track 7 from Only Dreaming
Track 8 from The Golden Age
Track 9 from Brighter Now vinyl
Track 10 from The Golden Age
Track 11 from Princess Coldheart
Track 12 from Faces In The Fire
Track 13 from Island Of Jewels
Track 14 from a session in September 1980
Track 15 from a session in September 1980

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The Wedding and Lisa’s Separation are switched in the listing.  Track 9 is The Wedding; Track 10 is Lisa’s Separation.

The Legendary Pink Dots’ Christmas Special 2022

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

December 18, 2022
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. The Eternal Optimist
  2. The Warm Bank

 


Credits

The Legendary Pink Dots


Notes

Ice on the road, snow on the grass, Slade on the radio, red and white hats at the supermarket. Yup, everybody is doing his or her best to look cheerful despite it all… “The Eternal Optimist” was actually performed live on the final day of The Dots’ Post Pandemic Tour of North America but It seemed fitting to create a studio interpretation of a piece about hope regardless of the circumstances at the end of such a dark year. 2022 has but a few days left…I reckon it has long outstayed its welcome.

 

Festive 3

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Release date and track list

October 23, 2022
NL CDR self-released on Bandcamp

  1. The Book Of Nights / The Euro Tower
  2. We All Have Names
  3. A Candle For Eugene
  4. The Butterfly Spirit / 10 Days Of Mourning

November 21, 2023
NL CDR self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Hallowe’en 2021 The Book Of Nights / The Euro Tower
  2. Xmas 2021 We All Have Names
  3. Xmas 2021 A Candle For Eugene
  4. Hallowe’en 2022 The Butterfly Spirit / 10 Days Of Mourning

Credits

The Legendary Pink Dots


Notes

A delightful handmade CD-R featuring Hallowe’en Specials from 2021 & 2022 plus Christmas 2021. A 55 minute odyssey. U.S orders may be sent earlier by domestic mail if time allows before the tour. Limited edition of 133.

November 2023:
At last downloadable as well as available in physical format. A gathering of ‘celebrations’ from the recent past.