The Clean

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Anything Could Happen 02:37 Tools
Slug Song 03:19 Tools
Tally Ho 02:41 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else 05:28 Tools
Billy Two 02:22 Tools
Thumbs Off 00:57 Tools
Beatnik 01:57 Tools
Fish 02:24 Tools
I Wait Around 02:59 Tools
Flowers 03:25 Tools
Sad Eyed Lady 03:00 Tools
Getting Older 04:18 Tools
The Blue 01:43 Tools
At the Bottom 03:50 Tools
Stars 03:55 Tools
Platypus 03:14 Tools
Diamond Shine 00:59 Tools
Odditty 02:33 Tools
Big Cat 01:39 Tools
Tally Ho! 02:47 Tools
Big Soft Punch 02:30 Tools
Side On 03:07 Tools
Point That Thing 09:32 Tools
End of My Dream 04:07 Tools
In The Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul 03:25 Tools
On Again/Off Again 01:46 Tools
Some One 01:50 Tools
Scrap Music 01:30 Tools
Bye Bye 02:15 Tools
Whatever I Do It's Right 02:31 Tools
Dunes 03:01 Tools
Safe in the Rain 03:48 Tools
Outside the Cage 05:05 Tools
Too Much Violence 04:06 Tools
Secret Place 01:31 Tools
Do Your Thing 04:09 Tools
Linger Longer 02:25 Tools
Loog 03:43 Tools
Home 02:01 Tools
Franz Kafka at the Zoo 01:55 Tools
Getting to You 01:47 Tools
Twist Top 02:02 Tools
Balkans 01:17 Tools
Clutch 02:12 Tools
Are You Really On Drugs 02:44 Tools
Indigo Blue 02:30 Tools
I Can See 02:33 Tools
Asleep in the Tunnel 03:05 Tools
Gem 01:07 Tools
Chumpy 01:12 Tools
Tensile 03:28 Tools
Trapped in Amber 03:13 Tools
Late Last Night 02:46 Tools
Back in the Day 02:47 Tools
Wipe Me, I'm Lucky 02:32 Tools
Some Ones 01:52 Tools
Factory Man 02:21 Tools
E Motel 02:32 Tools
Ludwig 02:08 Tools
Holdin’ On 02:42 Tools
Simple Fix 03:52 Tools
All Those Notes 02:59 Tools
Quickstep (Live) 05:50 Tools
Drawing To A Whole 02:03 Tools
Jala 04:21 Tools
Crazy 03:04 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (EP Version) 05:24 Tools
Moon Jumper 05:42 Tools
Starting point 02:25 Tools
fish (live) 02:56 Tools
anything could happen (live) 02:16 Tools
Golden Crown 01:39 Tools
Silence or Something Else 02:47 Tools
Cell Block No. 5 01:26 Tools
point that thing somewhere else (live) 03:48 Tools
Platypus [Live] 00:00 Tools
flowers (live) 02:41 Tools
Are You Really On Drugs? 02:46 Tools
Poor Boy 02:41 Tools
2 Reasons 03:40 Tools
Wake Up in the Morning 03:55 Tools
Twilight Agency 02:51 Tools
AHO 06:14 Tools
Whatever I do Is Right 02:22 Tools
Circle Canyon 04:45 Tools
Whatever I Do Is Right (Live) 02:46 Tools
Alpine Madness 01:39 Tools
Quickstep [Live] 00:00 Tools
Two Fat Sisters [Live] 00:00 Tools
At The Bottom (Live) 03:22 Tools
At The Bottom (Alternate Version) 03:26 Tools
At the Bottom [Live] 00:00 Tools
Something I Need 03:41 Tools
Complications 01:58 Tools
McKaras Autumn Mix 00:00 Tools
Different World 03:45 Tools
Count to Ten 02:03 Tools
Stomp the Guru 02:18 Tools
Moonjumper 05:42 Tools
In the Back 01:56 Tools
Phluke 02:23 Tools
Ginger Ale 02:45 Tools
Wipe Me I'm Lucky 03:23 Tools
Reprise 1, 2, 3, & 4 06:41 Tools
Hold Onto the Rail 03:21 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (A Return) 05:28 Tools
Champagne & Misery 00:00 Tools
Holdin' On 02:41 Tools
Quickstep 08:26 Tools
Changing Your Head 00:00 Tools
Two Fat Sisters [Live At The Rhumba Bar] 00:00 Tools
Whisk 00:00 Tools
Tweezer 00:00 Tools
At the Bottom [live at the Gladstone] 00:00 Tools
Quickstep [live at the Gladstone] 00:00 Tools
Two Fat Sisters 02:54 Tools
Whatever I Do It's... 02:33 Tools
Get the Liquid 00:00 Tools
Happy Lil Fella 00:00 Tools
Art School 02:15 Tools
Rope 00:00 Tools
Valley Cab 00:00 Tools
Cooking Water 00:00 Tools
Wall Walk 00:00 Tools
At The Bottom (Outtake) 03:50 Tools
Quickstep - Live at the Gladstone, July 4 1981 02:34 Tools
Success Story 03:15 Tools
Wild Western Shores 02:41 Tools
Count to Ten - Live 02:10 Tools
David Bowie 01:51 Tools
Wild Western Shores - Live 03:46 Tools
This Guy 00:52 Tools
Art School - Live 02:46 Tools
Mudchucker Blues 00:53 Tools
Fats Domino 02:04 Tools
Band That Never Was 02:22 Tools
Yellow Man 04:01 Tools
Hold onto the Rail - Live 02:46 Tools
Point That Thing Dub 05:16 Tools
Wheels of Industry 01:17 Tools
Inside Out 03:33 Tools
Tell Me Why 01:41 Tools
Tally Ho! [1981] 02:39 Tools
Safety at Home 01:50 Tools
Lemmings 02:26 Tools
Stylaphone Music 00:44 Tools
Caveman 02:31 Tools
Filling A Hole 02:39 Tools
Gentle Hour 05:06 Tools
Draw (In) G to A [W] Hole 04:11 Tools
Tee Pees & Tom Toms 02:34 Tools
Filling a Hole (Slush Fund Version) 03:36 Tools
Rollo (Slush Fund Version) 03:36 Tools
I Can't Stand It 03:36 Tools
In Love With These Times 02:17 Tools
Slush Fund (Slush Fund Version) 02:17 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (Slush Fund Version) 02:17 Tools
Caveman (Slush Fund Version) 02:34 Tools
Tee Pee's & Tom Toms 02:34 Tools
Anything Could Happen (In-A-Live Version) 02:15 Tools
Fish (In-A-Live Version) 02:55 Tools
Flowers (In-A-Live Version) 02:40 Tools
I Cant Stand It 00:00 Tools
Wipe Me I’m Lucky (Slush Fund Version) 02:40 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (In-A-Live Version) 03:46 Tools
Fish (Slush Fund Version) 02:10 Tools
Happy Birthday John 02:10 Tools
Whatever I Do Is Right (In-A-Live Version) 02:46 Tools
Quickstep (Slush Fund Version) 05:33 Tools
I Wait Around (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 01:25 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else - EP Version 05:26 Tools
Attack Of The Teddybears 01:25 Tools
Fish (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 01:25 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 01:25 Tools
At the Bottom (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 01:25 Tools
Do Your Thing (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 01:25 Tools
Hold On to the Rail (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 01:25 Tools
Rollo 01:14 Tools
Stronger Man 01:25 Tools
Two Fat Sisters (live at the Rhumba Bar) 02:54 Tools
Slush Fund 00:46 Tools
Hold on to the Rail 03:21 Tools
At the Bottom (live at the Gladstone) 03:26 Tools
Quickstep (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 04:47 Tools
Corridor 04:47 Tools
Side On (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 05:52 Tools
Crazy (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 05:52 Tools
Platypus (Live) 00:00 Tools
Quickstep (live at the Gladstone) 05:52 Tools
Stars (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 05:52 Tools
Jala (Syd's Pink Wiring System Version) 05:52 Tools
On Again Off Again 01:47 Tools
Anything Could Happen (studio) 00:30 Tools
At the Bottom - Live 03:26 Tools
She Goes She Goes 03:19 Tools
Quickstep [bonus] 04:11 Tools
Holding On 02:42 Tools
Holdin On 02:42 Tools
Count To Ten [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Quickstep (Live at the Gladstone, July 4 1981) 02:32 Tools
Art School [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Hold Onto The Rail [bonus] 02:59 Tools
Draw(Ing) To A (W)hole 02:03 Tools
Reprise 1*, 2*, 3* & 4* 04:11 Tools
Wild Western Shores [bonus] 02:41 Tools
Anything Could Hapen 02:28 Tools
Count To Ten [live] 02:03 Tools
Oddity (live) 02:30 Tools
Right Now 00:00 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 2 02:04 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (A Return) [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Yellowman 04:01 Tools
Art School [live] 02:15 Tools
Moon Jump er 05:44 Tools
Count to Ten (Live) 03:03 Tools
Wild Western Shores [live] 02:40 Tools
sense of balance 02:22 Tools
bad news for jesus 04:38 Tools
Room 16 00:00 Tools
Wild Western Shores (Live) 01:41 Tools
Tally Ho (HQ).mp4 02:09 Tools
hold onto the rail (live) 02:09 Tools
Rollo - Slush Fund Version 02:09 Tools
Titled 04:01 Tools
Hold Onto The Rail [live] 02:59 Tools
Space Bikie 01:58 Tools
Art School (Live) 03:06 Tools
Wipe Me, I’m Lucky 03:23 Tools
Under 01:58 Tools
whatever i do is right/wrong 02:32 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (A Return) [Live] 03:23 Tools
Two Fat Sisters - Live 02:54 Tools
Two Fat Sisters - Live at the Gladstone July 4 1981 02:55 Tools
Slush Fund - Slush Fund Version 02:55 Tools
it's a day (live) 02:46 Tools
Quickstep - Live 02:26 Tools
Filling a Hole - Slush Fund Version 02:26 Tools
Over U 02:46 Tools
Big Mouth (Live) 02:47 Tools
What You Should Be Now (Live) 01:44 Tools
Caveman - Slush Fund Version 01:44 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else - Slush Fund Version 01:44 Tools
What Ever I Do 00:30 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 3 02:39 Tools
Sense Of Balance (Live) 02:12 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 4 02:16 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 6 03:00 Tools
Say 02:32 Tools
Draw 02:04 Tools
surf music (live) 01:53 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 5 01:45 Tools
middle sized mind (live) 03:12 Tools
Sinking Ship 02:32 Tools
elvis no. 2 (live) 02:13 Tools
obscurity blues (live) 02:27 Tools
What Happened Ray? (Live) 01:45 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 8 02:00 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 7 01:52 Tools
Tally Ho (1981) 00:30 Tools
Quickstep - Live at the Gladstone July 4 1981 05:53 Tools
Hilliard 01:52 Tools
Attack Of The Teddy Bears 00:30 Tools
hey solid citizens (live) 02:29 Tools
9 Game 03:03 Tools
Cleaner 03:03 Tools
elvis no. 1 03:03 Tools
Piug 00:30 Tools
White Paradise 00:30 Tools
Fish - In-a-Live Version 02:37 Tools
Quickstep - Slush Fund Version 02:37 Tools
pop art pictures (live) 02:04 Tools
Wipe Me I’m Lucky - Slush Fund Version 02:04 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 14 01:08 Tools
Anything Could Happen - In-a-Live Version 02:15 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 10 01:51 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else - In-a-Live Version 01:02 Tools
Toadstoll Blues (Live) 01:41 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 12 01:41 Tools
It's A Day 02:09 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 11 02:31 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 9 03:12 Tools
Fish - Slush Fund Version 03:12 Tools
Draw(in)g to a W(h)ole 03:12 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 03:12 Tools
Blue 01:44 Tools
Whatever I Do It's Right - In-a-Live Version 02:16 Tools
From Seed To Harvest Under Artificial Sun 02:09 Tools
Stange Journey 02:09 Tools
Pop Art Pictures 02:01 Tools
Toadstool Blues 03:06 Tools
Hey Solid Citizen 02:24 Tools
At the Bottom - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:24 Tools
Obscurity Blues 02:04 Tools
Fish - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:04 Tools
Jkgliyf9999 03:06 Tools
Flowers - In-a-Live Version 01:02 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else [live] 06:38 Tools
ÊïììÜôé 13 02:33 Tools
Side On - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:33 Tools
I Wait Around - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:33 Tools
01 two fat sisters 02:54 Tools
Anything Can Happen 02:14 Tools
Quickstep - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:14 Tools
Wipe Me, I'm Lucky (Live) 02:54 Tools
Hold On to the Rail - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:54 Tools
Oddity [Recorded live at CBGB, 1988] 02:54 Tools
One 02:54 Tools
The Clean, Tensile. 02:54 Tools
The Clean - Tally Ho 02:39 Tools
Point That Thing (dub) 03:51 Tools
Fish [Live] 04:37 Tools
Don't Point That Thing At Me 04:37 Tools
Stars - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 04:37 Tools
Fuiii13 06:38 Tools
Psychedelic Clown 02:49 Tools
What You Should Be Now 01:41 Tools
The Clean - Thumbs Off 02:58 Tools
The Clean - Anything Could Happen 02:38 Tools
Crazy - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:38 Tools
I Wait Around (original version) 02:26 Tools
Do Your Thing - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:26 Tools
Jala - Syd's Pink Wiring System Version 02:26 Tools
On Again/ Off Again 01:47 Tools
I Wait Around [Live] 02:38 Tools
Middle Sized Mind 03:07 Tools
Small Girl 02:02 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else ! 05:33 Tools
The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else 05:33 Tools
Surf Music 02:26 Tools
Hold On To The Rail [Live] 03:25 Tools
02 At The Bottom 03:07 Tools
Kuyf 02:26 Tools
The Clean - Someone 01:47 Tools
Quickstep (live at the Rumba Bar, Auckland, 15 May 1982) 00:30 Tools
Sinking Ships 02:37 Tools
The Clean - Sad Eyed Lady 03:02 Tools
Endof My Dream 03:02 Tools
Iva 03:02 Tools
Fish - Live 00:00 Tools
Yesterday Was 02:25 Tools
Big Mouth 02:42 Tools
Quickstep [live at the Gladsto 05:52 Tools
Elvis #2 02:09 Tools
The Clean - Flowers 03:25 Tools
On Again, Off Again 02:09 Tools
Love is my god 02:09 Tools
Instrumental 01:35 Tools
Anything Could Happen - Live 02:15 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else [Piano Version] 03:46 Tools
Tee Pee's And Tom Toms 02:41 Tools
The Clean - Platypus 03:16 Tools
Urban Objectives 03:16 Tools
Point That Thing #3 04:15 Tools
Side On [Live] 01:40 Tools
The Clean - On Again/Off Again 03:16 Tools
Reprise 123&4 04:15 Tools
Clean 03:16 Tools
;Oio= 03:16 Tools
The Clean - I Wait Around 03:16 Tools
The Clean - Billy Two 02:23 Tools
Flowers - Live 02:41 Tools
The Clean - Fish 02:24 Tools
The Clean - End Of My Dream 02:25 Tools
The Clean - The Blue 02:25 Tools
Whatever I Do It's… 02:49 Tools
Success Story (Live) 03:17 Tools
16 and naked 04:15 Tools
Lkgflg12 04:15 Tools
Merge Records, In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul 04:15 Tools
Point That Thing Somewhere Else - Live 03:46 Tools
Do Your Thing [Live] 01:46 Tools
6 Some One 01:51 Tools
Whatever I Do Is Right - Live 02:46 Tools
11 Big Cat 01:40 Tools
Elvis #1 03:03 Tools
The Clean - Slug Song 02:46 Tools
Humming Wires 03:03 Tools
Evilution 03:03 Tools
I;Ug 03:03 Tools
The art of... 03:03 Tools
The Clean - Beatnik 03:03 Tools
4 The Blue 01:46 Tools
e-motel 01:40 Tools
5 Dunes 03:03 Tools
10 Big Soft Punch 02:32 Tools
The Clean - At The Bottom 01:40 Tools
Airplane Madness 00:00 Tools
Golden Boy 01:40 Tools
Twist Pop 00:00 Tools
Beatnik. 00:00 Tools
Point That Thing # 3 01:40 Tools
The Clean - Big Cat 01:40 Tools
Wipe Me, I’m Lucky 00:00 Tools
Cell Block No.5 00:00 Tools
18.Balkans 00:00 Tools
Two Fat Sisters - (live) 00:00 Tools
The Clean - Drawing to a Hole 00:00 Tools
At the Bottom [outtake] 03:52 Tools
The Clean - Diamond Shine 03:52 Tools
The Clean - Side On 02:03 Tools
8 Diamond Shine 03:13 Tools
12 I Can See 02:35 Tools
13 Gem 01:07 Tools
The Clean - Big Soft Punch 02:32 Tools
Two Sisters-Live 02:32 Tools
Quickstep-Live 02:32 Tools
At The Bottom-Live 02:32 Tools
On Again-Off Again 01:46 Tools
The Clean - Outside the cage 02:32 Tools
Ljyfou7glog 01:46 Tools
- Beatnik 11:06 Tools
Getting Older (Live At The Regent 2008) 04:25 Tools
Quickstep - (live) 04:25 Tools
On Again / Off Again 04:25 Tools
2 I Wait Around 02:40 Tools
At the Bottom [live at the Gla 03:03 Tools
She Goes 03:05 Tools
Sense Of Balance #2 02:08 Tools
What Happened Ray 02:49 Tools
Whatever I Do Its Right 02:49 Tools
The Clean - Two Fat Sisters [live at the Rhumba Bar] 02:08 Tools
Pure Philosophy 02:08 Tools
Wipe Me, Im Lucky 03:11 Tools
КпммЬфй 3 02:08 Tools
Twist 02:08 Tools
TallyHo 02:40 Tools
Jala [Live] 02:40 Tools
Left By Jam 03:33 Tools
The Clean - Getting Older 02:08 Tools
whatever I do, it's right (live) 02:08 Tools
Short Instrumental 01:09 Tools
3 Bye Bye 02:15 Tools
Cover Song? 02:39 Tools
7 Home 02:03 Tools
9 Getting To You 01:48 Tools
Stars [Live] 02:39 Tools
Secret Place (Anthology) 01:02 Tools
Billy 2 02:30 Tools
In The Dreamlife U Need A Rubb 02:30 Tools
The Clean - Secret Place 03:32 Tools
The Clean - Safe in the Rain 03:32 Tools
Champagne Misery 02:45 Tools
КпммЬфй 4 02:45 Tools
Happy Birthday, John 02:23 Tools
The Clean - Do Your Thing 02:23 Tools
Last prayer for Babylon 02:23 Tools
Fvuuioh14 02:23 Tools
The Clean - Odditty 02:23 Tools
Vehicle 01:17 Tools
(stage noises) 00:36 Tools
In The Dream Life You Need A Rubber Soul 03:29 Tools
I Don't Get You 02:59 Tools
Tell Me? 03:31 Tools
Happy Lil' Fella 01:02 Tools
The Clean / Fish 02:24 Tools
in the dreamtime you need a rubber soul 03:30 Tools
Oddity 03:30 Tools
The Clean - Scrap Music 03:30 Tools
The Clean - Whatever I Do Is Right 03:30 Tools
Two Fat Sisters (Live At The Gladstone July 4 1981) 02:56 Tools
Safe In The Rain (Live) 02:16 Tools
Get Out Of This Place 01:17 Tools
Two Sisters 03:11 Tools
Caveman (Live) 02:16 Tools
Wild Western Shotes 03:11 Tools
Merge Records, Tensile 03:11 Tools
wipe me im lucky 03:11 Tools
Angel of my own 03:11 Tools
Whatever I Do It's Right (In-a-Live Version) 03:11 Tools
Crazy [Live] 11:06 Tools
Two Fat Sisters (live at the Rumba Bar, Auckland, 15 May 1982) 11:06 Tools
cell block no 5 11:06 Tools
motel 02:16 Tools
(Instrumental) 02:37 Tools
Whole World Revolves Around You 02:37 Tools
What Happened Ray? 02:16 Tools
Silence of Something Else 02:16 Tools
The Clean - Quickstep [live at the Gladstone] 02:16 Tools
In the Dreamlife You Need a Ru 02:16 Tools
Untitled 02:16 Tools
Its Too Late 02:16 Tools
The Clean - Linger Longer 02:16 Tools
КпммЬфй 7 02:16 Tools
КпммЬфй 8 02:16 Tools
КпммЬфй 5 02:16 Tools
КпммЬфй 6 02:16 Tools
The Clean - Trapped in amber 02:16 Tools
КпммЬфй 9 02:16 Tools
Illuminate my wrong 02:16 Tools
In The Dreamlife... 02:16 Tools
getting-older 02:16 Tools
Hold Onto That Rail (cuts off) 01:17 Tools
The Clean - Twist Top 01:17 Tools
The Clean - Franz Kafka at the zoo 01:17 Tools
Silver 01:17 Tools
Reprise: 1, 2, 3, & 4 01:17 Tools
Season of fire 01:17 Tools
Psychadelic Ranger 01:17 Tools
tally-ho 02:41 Tools
02 Tally Ho 02:41 Tools
A Secret Place 02:41 Tools
05 Point That Thing Somewhere Else 05:28 Tools
2 01:02 Tools
The Clean - Tally Ho! 01:02 Tools
The Clean - At the Bottom [live at the Gladstone] 01:02 Tools
What U Should Be Now 01:02 Tools
Draw(in)g To A Whole 01:02 Tools
The Clean - Ludwig 01:02 Tools
Reprise 1*, 2*, 3*, & 4* 01:02 Tools
Wipe Me I'm Lucky (Slush Fund Version) 01:02 Tools
Quickstep (Live At The Gladstone July 4 1981) 05:54 Tools
Point that thing somewhere 05:54 Tools
sense of balance # 2 05:54 Tools
The Clean - Too Much Violence 05:54 Tools
Fran3 Katka At The Zoo 05:54 Tools
Born In The Wrong Time 05:54 Tools
КпммЬфй 12 05:54 Tools
КпммЬфй 10 05:54 Tools
Cybotron 05:54 Tools
The Clean - Thumbs Off hi 00:00 Tools
Side On / Beatnik 00:00 Tools
Getting Older (demo) 04:34 Tools
Can't Find Water 04:34 Tools
The Clean - Indigo Blue 04:34 Tools
At The Botom (Live) 03:26 Tools
Wipe Me I'M Lucky 03:26 Tools
Alastair Galbraith / Getting Older 03:26 Tools
Bad News For Jesus (Recorded On A 4-track in chch) 04:32 Tools
Sense Of Balance (Recorded On A 4-track in chch) 02:19 Tools
At The Bottom - (live, alternate take) 02:19 Tools
Track 01 02:19 Tools
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The Clean are an influential indie rock band that formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978. The Clean soon forged a distinctive and quirky sound, inspired by punk filtered through to the relatively isolated New Zealand. Although they released several chart-topping singles in their native country, The Clean are a little-known cult band outside of New Zealand, although their influence is surprisingly far-reaching. They became a staple of college radio in the 1980s; Stephen Malkmus of Pavement cites them as a major influence, and the band's droney 80s output is a direct forerunner of bands such as Yo La Tengo and Camper Van Beethoven. In 1981, a fan of the Clean founded the Flying Nun label to release their first single, "Tally Ho." A follow-up track off one of their early EPs, "Beatnik", also achieved success, as did the second single, "Getting Older". The Flying Nun label went on to be New Zealand's biggest independent record company, championing the Dunedin Sound, a loosely-connected style of music largely produced by bands from this southern city. Others on the label included The Chills, The Verlaines, The Bats, and Sneaky Feelings. During much of the 1980s, The Clean disbanded, and during this time the Kilgour brothers worked together on an experimental album and EP using the deliberately punning titles "The Great Unwashed" and "Clean Out of Our Minds". Reforming in the late 1980s, the band explored a slightly poppier vein of music while still retaining their experimental edge. In June 2008 a live album recorded during the 2007 New Zealand tour was released in New Zealand on Arch Hill Records, entitled "Mashed". A new studio album, titled Mister Pop was released on September 7, 2009 on Arch Hill, and on September 8 in the United States on the Merge label. As of December 2009, The Clean have announced their first European dates in more than 20 years, supporting the cult U.S band Pavement at Brixton Academy on the 10th of May. They are also playing at the Pavement curated ATP at Butlins Minehead on the 14th of May. Other dates on the tour include Amsterdam (May 22), Hamburg (May 23), Berlin (May 25) and Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival May 29). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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