BUTTERFLY CHILD Soft Explosives 1998

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Tracklist

Big Soft Mouth	2:01
Drunk On Beauty	4:53
Holy Hymn	4:54
Number One	3:48
When You Return	4:53
Mad Bird	4:15
The Beautiful Girls	4:53
1929	1:57
Someone's Sister	5:24
Zepplin Catches Fire At Speed	2:16
Don't Talk To Me	4:42
Reprise	1:46
Gringo	1:06
Life Without The Compass	6:36
The Sound Of Love Breaking Apart	4:56

BUTTERFLY CHILD

Onomatopoeia

1993 

The Honeymoon Suite

1995

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Onomatopoeia

Tracklist

Ave	1:48
Our Lady Mississipp	4:15
Lunar Eclipse	5:35
Who Said What To Whom	6:44
Young Virgins Call For Mutiny	4:54
X:Celcius	8:58
Cancer Killed Capricorn	6:23
Triumphant	5:11
Verte Ecolé	5:12
Stars Light Up Orleans	7:05
Queen Glass	5:21
Eva	6:58

The Honeymoon Suite

Tracklist

Mother Have Mercy	6:07
Passion Is The Only Fruit	4:04
Ghost On Your Shoulder	3:33
Flaming Burlesque	5:56
Unwashed, Uncool	4:11
Carolina And The Be Bop Revue	4:26
Deep South	3:44
Louis As Anna	4:35
Six Urchins	3:37
Botany Bay	4:06
Towns Come Tumblin'	5:56
I Shall Hear In Heaven	5:32

 

BUTTERFLY CHILD

Eucalyptus

1992

Ghetto Speak

1993

 

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Artist Biography by Steve "Spaz" Schnee

Led by the multi-talented Joe Cassidy (the only constant member), a native of Belfast, North Ireland, Butterfly Child burst onto the music scene in 1991 with two well-received EPs on A.R. Kane's Hark label. Signing to Rough Trade in 1993, Butterfly Child released both the brilliant Ghetto Speak EP and equally wonderful Onomatopoeia album. It was obvious upon release that Butterfly Child would be hard to classify. Their visionary sound was not unlike Brian Wilson trapped inside a Cocteau Twins recording session while John Cage battled with John Cale over production. Lost in a world of fads and short-lived music scenes (Madchester, shoegazing, and grunge), Butterfly Child received kudos from the press but failed to set the world on fire, sales-wise. Signing with Dedicated Records, Butterfly Child released their second album, The Honeymoon Suite, in 1995. More kudos followed ("the record the term 'perfect pop' should have been invented for" said Melody Maker) but Butterfly Child still remained just outside the mainstream, adored by their fan base (which was growing bigger with each release). By the time the second album had been released, Chicago's Hit It! Records had released the first album in the U.S., followed by a release of the second album in 1996. Joe Cassidy relocated to Chicago in 1997 and began work on Butterfly Child's third album and masterpiece, Soft Explosives, which was released on Hit It! in late 1998.