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Limited Edition LITTLE GREEN ONION MAN EP!!!

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It’s finally here (or coming to your attention)! This freaky little beast that be is the new Takeovers release the “Little Green Onion Man” EP. A nice mini-movie comprised of 4 songs (one from the Bad Football album—the other 3 are unreleased Robert Pollard compositions) that warmly straddles the loosey-goosey psych-pop sounds of their first album, Turn To Red as well as the white knuckled rock pomp of their second (Bad Football). From the spooky freak-beat of “Rich Man’s Girl” to the Ann Arbor beating that “Wigstomper 07” dishes out you might not want to listen to this in the dark. But it makes us happy. Also along for the drive is John Moen of Stephen Malkmus/The Decemberists, Sam Coomes of Quasi/Blues Goblins and Brian Berg of 44 Long to join the boys as they take you on a tight little visit of their twisted lop-sided tunage. It'll be pressed in a limited edition of 950 CDs and 950 copies of 7" vinyl (500 of the vinyl will be handnumbered and available only through this lovely website!) Order it now at www.offrecords.com

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Member Since: 5/22/2007
Band Website: offrecords.com
Band Members: Robert Pollard - The Man. Chris Slusarenko - The lesser man.....With help from the War Torn Girls #1. Chris George #2. Steve Malkmus #3. John Moen #4. Tad Doyle #5. Dan Peters #6. Brian Berg #7. Jim Talstra......Go figure.
Influences: Cheap Trick, The Verlaines, that bass player in Wire and oh, yeah, that band Guided By Voices.........
Sounds Like: See above. DUH!
Record Label: Off records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

BAD FOOTBALL LP SOLD OUT.....

Sadly the Bad Football LP is out of print thanks to all you lovely vinyl lovers out there.  With the brutal cost of vinyl pressing these days we appreciate your support so we can continue pressin...
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:40:00 PST

SOME LOVELY PITCHFORK ACTION--SORRY COPY 279 IS TAKEN...

You know you love to hate to love it--here's pitchfork media.....http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/47666-poll ard-records-7-with-decemberists-quasi-members
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:49:00 PST

PRE-ORDER THE LIMITED EDITION LITTLE GREEN ONION MAN EP FROM OFF RECORDS

It's finally here (or coming to your attention)! This freaky little beast that be is the new Takeovers release the "Little Green Onion Man" EP. A nice mini-movie comprised of 4 songs (one from the Bad...
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:45:00 PST

HELP BAD FOOTBALL WIN BEST ART VINYL OF 2007!

Hey all you wigstompers!  The Robert Pollard's cover artwork for Bad Football has been nominated for best album artwork as part of the London Design Festival in London.  You can vote for us ...
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:37:00 PST

THE BIG TAKEOVER SAYS BOB IS A BEAUTIFUL GENIUS

Do you like reviews?  Here's one from The Big Takeover:the takeoversbad football(off)Robert Pollard (of the now disbanded Guided By Voices) is a beautiful genius. His ability to pen, execute and ...
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:45:00 PST

LITTLE GREEN ONION MAN EP ROUNDING THE CORNER!

Thank you all for your patience.........due to health issues and other fun-i-ties the Little Green Onion Man EP (or LGOMEP for those who have a computer) has finally been finished and it's a doozy!&nb...
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:57:00 PST

DRASTIC PLASTIC PRESS TALKS THE TALK AND THE TAKEOVERS WALK THE WALK IN THIS INTERVIEW!

Here's a nice email interview.  Check it out:http://www.drastic-plastic.com/takeovers.htmlcool....... ..
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:07:00 PST

BAD FOOTBALL ON ECAST--FORCE OTHERS TO LISTEN!!!

Our lovely Bad Football album is now available on any Ecast/RockOla internet jukebox in your favorite bar.  Now force others to shake their rump to "My Will", slow dance to "Father's Favorite Tem...
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:06:00 PST

LITTLE GREEN ONION MAN EP UPDATE

Hello everyone out there....  We've got reportage that the Little Green Onion Man EP is now coming out in late fall on Off Records (via licensing from happy jack rock records).   It's g...
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:55:00 PST

PITCHFORKMEDIA ON BAD FOOTBALL? LOVE IT? YOU BE THE JUDGE!

Another review courtesy of the good ship Pitchforkmedia.com:http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_ review/44540-badfootball
Posted by THE TAKEOVERS on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST