here is the NFO file from Indietorrents
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The Desperate Bicycles – Singles
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Artist……………: The Desperate Bicycles
Album…………….: Singles
Genre…………….: Rock
Source……………: NMR
Year……………..: 2010
Ripper……………: NMR
Codec…………….: LAME 3.98
Version…………..: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality…………..: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 251kbps)
Channels………….: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags……………..: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Ripped by…………: NMR
Posted by…………: water on 8/1/2012
Included………….: NFO
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:02:01) The Desperate Bicycles – Smokescreen
2. (00:00:56) The Desperate Bicycles – Handlebars
3. (00:02:18) The Desperate Bicycles – The Medium Was Tedium
4. (00:02:01) The Desperate Bicycles – Don’t Back the Front
5. (00:03:00) The Desperate Bicycles – (I Make the) Product
6. (00:02:41) The Desperate Bicycles – Paradise Lost
7. (00:02:29) The Desperate Bicycles – Advice on Arrest
8. (00:03:51) The Desperate Bicycles – Holidays
9. (00:01:43) The Desperate Bicycles – The Housewife Song
10. (00:02:37) The Desperate Bicycles – Cars
11. (00:05:57) The Desperate Bicycles – Occupied Territory
12. (00:02:48) The Desperate Bicycles – Skill
13. (00:02:32) The Desperate Bicycles – Obstructive
14. (00:02:06) The Desperate Bicycles – Conundrum
15. (00:02:36) The Desperate Bicycles – Grief is Very Private
16. (00:03:08) The Desperate Bicycles – Channel (The Evening Outs)
17. (00:02:22) The Desperate Bicycles – Stammer (The Evening Outs)
Playing Time………: 00:45:06
Total Size………..: 82.58 MB
NFO generated on…..: 8/1/2012 6:09:59 PM
Collage name # torrents
DIY Post-Punk 31
Bootleg info
“Congratulations to whoever made this MP3-sourced, minimally-appointed bootleg of the Desperate Bicycles/Evening Outs singles: at some point in the future, provided you are still alive, Nicky Stephens will punch you in the face. It’s a bold move, less egalitarian than the CD-R/digital files that have been passed around since the early ‘00s, but don’t let it obscure the fact that Stephens’ fist is going to come crashing into your mug, perhaps when you aren’t expecting it, because records like this don’t really solve the problem – namely, how to represent England’s first truly DIY folk punk band, a band whose legacy sits next to late ‘70s Scritti Politti as the most ingenious and important of the era. A tiny bootleg pressing isn’t going to get the job done – the 500 or so copies of this going around aren’t making it into the hands of people who’ve never heard of the Desperate Bicycles before, so this just becomes a stopgap fetish object for people like me who waited too long to shell out for original copies and are now at the mercy of HIGH PRICES. That beatdown isn’t a how or a why, but a when. Personally I think it’s a shame that this music has never received a proper reissue, but it’s not my call as to why or why not. The anti-authoritarian political message in this music should appeal to both sides of the party line, and they were a really fun, inspired band to make music that thinned the boundaries of punk and “punk,” all while keeping every aspect of control over their output. For people to represent “and, not or” in this era of music was precisely what needed to happen, despite their divorce from the times due to lack of historical representation. Reading about this music is like reading a missing person’s report, which couldn’t be further from the truth – the brash, somewhat detuned chords of “Smokescreen” hit like Nicky Stephens’ fist, plowing into the face of whoever did this record, and the maintenance between stompier and more mellow styles of music will no doubt feel like that hot, flushed feeling you’ll have in your head when he makes your face a total loss, when you find yourself on the ground, fishing through the gore to find some of your teeth, the taste of blood gushing down the back of your throat. Hope it was worth it, buddy.” -still single