{"id":489,"date":"2011-12-12T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2024-12-17T04:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:40:32","slug":"the-pollen-factory-hours-12-contrasts-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-pollen-factory-hours-12-contrasts-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pollen- Contrasts\/Factory Hours\/Colours and Make Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated 12\/16\/24!<\/em><\/p>\n

For those who enjoyed the Pollen LP posted a few entries back, here’s a post that is both supplemental and one which renders the previous post<\/a> obsolete. Contained within we have pristine CD rips of the band’s output, including both albums and the Factory Hours <\/em>single (both the 12” and 7” tracks appear), all of which were released on the legendary Danceteria label. Contrasts<\/em> also comes with bonus tracks from the Nurturing Desire<\/em> 12”, which completes the discography, more or less (missing are a handful of live tracks from a best of as well as the single for\u00a0River of Life<\/em>, which has two remixes and a unique b-side)*<\/p>\n

After The Pollen called it quits, two members formed shoegaze band The Park, who released one album in 1992<\/a>*.<\/p>\n

If you dug the Adrian Borland-produced mini-LP, be sure to download this one as well, for additional songs, higher fidelity, and as of December 2024, their sophomore record, which has grown on me considerably over the years… “Factory Walk” is also a killer track, complete with that cold post-punk sound we all know and love, with poppier and folkier-inspired b-sides. Fans of bands like The Popguns and Darling Buds as well as French coldwave\/The Sound\/etc. will hopefully adore this band as much as I do!<\/p>\n

Have at it, folks!<\/p>\n

*2024 update – stay tuned!
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The Pollen- Contrasts<\/em>\u00a0(1988)
\n1. Nurturing Desire
\n2. Passionate Reading
\n3. Military Tactics
\n4. Dream
\n5. Like the Wind
\n6. Killer
\n7. Heathen World
\n8. Peel the Skin
\n9. Faraway
\n10. Hard Times
\n11. Breaking Out<\/p>\n

Tracks 1, 2, and 7 from Nurturing Desire 12”. The rest appear in different order on the Contrasts mini-LP.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Pollen- Factory Hours<\/em> (1989)
\n1. Factory Hours
\n2. (In Your) Head
\n3. Bushes and Briars
\n4. Passionate Reading (Remix)<\/p>\n

Tracks 2 and 3 from the 12”. Track 4 from the 7”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Pollen –\u00a0Colours and Make Believe<\/em>\u00a0(1989)
\n1. Wake Up And Fight
\n2. No Stranger
\n3. River Of Life
\n4. Watching Silently
\n5. In The Country
\n6. Jeune D\u00b4Esprit
\n7. The Darkness Is Around You
\n8. The Journey
\n9. A Better Past
\n10. Colours And Make Believe
\n11. 1990<\/p>\n

*download all three here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated 12\/16\/24! For those who enjoyed the Pollen LP posted a few entries back, here’s a post that is both supplemental and one which renders the previous post obsolete. Contained within we have pristine CD rips of the band’s output, including both albums and the Factory Hours single (both the 12” and 7” tracks appear), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,151,684,39,13,156,670,19,683,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-151","category-adrian-borland","category-coldwave","category-dreampop","category-french","category-indie","category-post-punk","category-the-pollen","category-the-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}