We Don't Need These Things At All ('89)

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This track was digitally remastered from the original analogue tapes in November 2013 by Martin Nicholls at The White House Recording Studio, Kewstoke, UK.

We Don't Need These Things At All ('89) was first recorded at P.I.J Studios, Bristol in June 1989. It was engineered by Fat Paul & Dave McDonald*.

2014 comment from the Garden Gnome:
"The original recording was not really produced by anybody, leave alone The Herb Garden. And it was never released. I'm not really selling this am I? The mildly interesting thing is: the session and the results - this song plus a sketchy, junked version of Shit On Me, and a really sore throat - gave rise to the production of all subsequent and commercial recordings by Herb Garden. So, strangely, this track marks the end of one era and the start of another. All recordings from here on were recorded and produced at The White House, Kewstoke and engineered by Martin Nicholls, including three further, excellent-quality versions of Shit On Me - four in total. The fourth version can be found on Herb Garden's only major-label release, 'Destructive Natural Agent' (EastWest/Warners, LP/CD). The other versions belong to Herb Garden. Therefore we'll make some of that fun stuff available here soon!"

*Read more about Herb Garden's all-too vague connections with Portishead at our website.

lyrics

WE DON'T NEED THESE THINGS AT ALL
(Words and music by Herb Garden)

I’m a refuse creator in the bitter factory
A hopeful expecter in the Sea of the Angry
And the fish that glow in that sea
They don’t look too healthy to me

I’m a re-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fuse creator!
I’m a re-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fuse creator!
In the shadow factory.

Because: We Don’t Need These Things At All
We Don’t Need These Things At All!

Did Nature nurture us to kill and destroy,
To tarmac up forest and to tarmac up land?
Those concrete fields that are growing there,
They don’t seem too productive to me.

I’m a re-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fuse creator!
I’m a re-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fuse creator!
In the shadow factory.

Because: We Don’t Need These Things At All
We Don’t Need These Things At All!

Endless, churning smoke in the air
I’m a refuse creator just living my lie-ife
And everyone else is living this life
This old world ain’t healthy to me.

I’m a refuse creator!
I’m a re-fu-fu-fu-fu-fu-fuse creator!
In the shadow factory.

One day I had a dream: I was sitting in a tree
Then one day this ape awoke, to find he was never, never free
And I’m climbing up that tree,
Just climbing and running away.

Because: We Don’t Need These Things At All
We Don’t Need These Things At All!

[Guitar solo: Phil]

© Herb Garden 1989

credits

from Herb Garden Quartet, released July 28, 2014
Words and music by Herb Garden. The musicians are:

Rat Crook - guitar and backing vocals
Dave Crook - bass guitar and backing vocals
Carl Graves - lead vocals
Phil Marsden - lead guitar
Ben Wallis - drums and percussion

Remastered by Martin Nicholls

Original recording made at PIJ Studios, Bristol.
Engineered/Mixed by Fat Paul/DaveMcDonald.
Produced by Herb Garden.

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We've remastered 1989's Eponymous EP, often known as 'Bulldozer Jones', and all the tracks that led to Warner's DNA mini-LP. We've loads to reveal! ... more

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