Tall Dwarfs

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
That's the long and the short of it
  NZ 45 11/17/1985 (1 week)
Singles
Nothing's going to happen
  NZ 25th 08/23/1981 (4 weeks)
Louis Likes His Daily Dip
  NZ 20th 09/26/1982 (5 weeks)
Slug bucket
  NZ 40 December 16, 1984 (2 weeks)
Throw a sickie
  NZ 49 01/25/1987 (1 week)

Tall Dwarfs are a New Zealand indie rock duo.

history

The New Zealand musicians Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate formed the Tall Dwarfs in Dunedin in 1979 . Both musicians play the instruments guitar , bass , keyboard and thus create a LoFi sound. Both also act as singers . The Tall Dwarfs do without a drummer , but use household appliances and clapping hands to create rhythm.

From 1981 to 2005 the Tall Dwarfs released eight albums and seven EPs, with two exceptions all of them on the New Zealand label Flying Nun Records and are therefore attributed to the Dunedin Sound . Overall, however, the music of the Tall Dwarfs is noisier and more disharmonious than that of the other Dunedin bands.

Discography

Albums

  • 1985: That's the Short and the Long of It
  • 1990: Weeville
  • 1991: Fork Songs
  • 1994: 3 EPs
  • 1996: Stumpy
  • 1998: Fifty Flavors of Glue
  • 2002: The Sky Above the Mud Below
  • 2005: In the Dying Days of Helen Young

Compilations

  • 1987: Hello Cruel World
  • 1992: The Short and Sick of It

EPs

  • 1981: Three Songs
  • 1982: Louis Likes His Daily Dip
  • 1983: Canned Music
  • 1984: Slugbuckethairybreathmonster
  • 1986: Throw a Sickie
  • 1987: Dogma
  • 1998: Gluey, Gluey and the Ear Friend

swell

  1. ↑ a b Tall Dwarfs in the New Zealand charts

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