Forever For A Little While, by The Green Pajamas

Forever For A Little While

by The Green Pajamas

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1.	Theme for A World Neurotic 00:12	buy track
2.	Six Minutes in Heaven 04:03	buy track
3.	Gnossiennes No. 3 [Excerpt/Variation] 00:44	buy track
4.	Princess Misa I 02:54	buy track
5.	Touched Her That Way 03:22	buy track
6.	Constance Gray 03:37	buy track
7.	I’ve Got Love 02:53	buy track
8.	Kimono Dream 04:03	buy track
9.	Give Me a Penny 03:35	buy track
10.	I Love the Way You Smile 02:46	buy track
11.	Psychedelic Sun 04:02	buy track
12.	Menthol Woman 02:00	buy track
13.	If You Leave Me Today 03:48	buy track
14.	Wildly Polite 03:25	buy track
15.	The Hidden Fortress 03:15	buy track
16.	Princess Misa II 02:28	buy track
17.	Under the Martian Sun/The Red Desert 03:24	buy track
18.	The Devastating Night 04:00	buy track
19.	Joy Ride/The Happy Ending 05:14	buy track

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Green Monkey Records is extremely happy to announce the arrival of a brand-new Green Pajamas album, Forever For A Little While. We wholeheartedly recommend this for placement on your short stack of essential listening for the fall of 2022. Very much a follow-up to last year’s, Sunlight Might Weigh Even More, this album again features stunning song-craft steeped in classic Green Pajamas neopsychedelic production sensibilities. Kicking off with the one-two punch of, “Theme for a World Neurotic,” sampled from a North Korean News broadcast(!) and “Six Minutes in Heaven,” it is immediately evident we are in the classic PJ’s territory of Strung Behind The Sun and All Clues Lead To Meagan’s Bed.

“The last album was influenced by Strung so I was thinking a bit about its follow-up, Meagan’s Bed, when putting this one together,” states Jeff Kelly. “It’s a little more autumnal than Sunlight, which I kind of regard as a mostly sunny record.” Beyond, Meagan’s Bed as influence, Kelly cites, living life during the pandemic, the planets, Persian music, Erik Satie, Japanese films by Akira Kurosawa, and even singer/actress Meiko Kaji’s Female Prisoner, Scorpion, and Lady Snowblood movies. “‘Menthol Woman’ was a song I wrote when I was a teenager. I wanted to record it so I took the original nonsensical lyrics out and turned it into a kinda Meiko Kaji tribute!” Other songs go way back as well. Someone with a bootleg cassette of one of the band’s earliest live performances might just recognize “I Love the Way You Smile,” and “Under the Martian Sun” was written around the time Jeff was in art school in the late 1970s. Though Jeff performed almost all of the music on this album himself, long-time Green Pajamas, Eric Lichter, Laura Weller, and Joe Ross contribute as songwriters, each singing their own compositions, Eric with three songs and Laura and Joe with one apiece. Which all adds up to a collection of startling depth and variety, a whole double-album’s worth of pop invention laced with 4-string Persian setar, tablas, synthesizers, and Jeff’s trusty Telecaster guitars and Rickenbacker bass. “Those are the kind of records I grew up with and loved so it’s hard not to want to try and put something like that together once in a while,” says Jeff.

He and the Green Pajamas have very much succeeded!

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released September 16, 2022

PERFORMED BY JEFF KELLY
WITH
ERIC LICHTER: VOCALS ON ‘CONSTANCE GRAY,’ ‘PSYCHEDELIC SUN’ AND ‘WILDLY POLITE’
LAURA WELLER: VOCALS AND ACOUSTIC GUITAR ON ’GIVE ME A PENNY’
SCOTT VANDERPOOL: DRUMS ON ‘GIVE ME A PENNY’
JOE ROSS: VOCAL, ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND ELECTRIC GUITAR ON ‘JOY RIDE/THE HAPPY ENDING’
BRYAN LEARNED: BASS ON ‘GIVE ME A PENNY’

PRODUCED BY JEFF KELLY
MASTERED BY TOM DYER AT TDS, OLYMPIA
PAINTING: ‘ROSEMARY AND HEATHER’ (2022) BY SUSANNE KELLY

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY JEFF KELLY © ST. BRIGID PUBLISHING/BMI
EXCEPT
‘GNOSSIENNE NO. 3’ BY ERIK SATIE (1866-1925)
‘CONSTANCE GRAY,’ ‘PSYCHEDELIC SUN’ AND ‘WILDLY POLITE’ BY ERIC LICHTER © ERIC LIGHTER;
‘GIVE ME A PENNY’ BY LAURA WELLER © LAURA WELLER/BMI
AND ‘JOY RIDE/THE HAPPY ENDING’ BY JOE ROSS © ST. BRIGID PUBLISHING/BMI
‘THEME FOR A WORLD NEUROTIC’ SAMPLED VIA YOUTUBE COMMONS FROM A 2011 NORTH KOREAN TV NEWS BROADCAST

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Green Pajamas Seattle, Washington

The Green Pajamas formed in the spring of 1984 when Jeff Kelly and Joe Ross recorded and released their first album, 'Summer Of Lust,' pioneering Seattle’s answer to the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene.
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