a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_QRSc2QiS7ts/RucIzS22V3I/AAAAAAAAA-A/7nu7K5fJBvg/s1600-h/mockingturtles.jpg" img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_QRSc2QiS7ts/RucIzS22V3I/AAAAAAAAA-A/7nu7K5fJBvg/s200/mockingturtles.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109061979603359602" / /a br / You probably already know that the Mock Turtles wrote ‘Can You Dig It?’ but did you know that their lead singer Martin Coogan is Alan Partridge’s brother? Even more startling is the revelation that their major hit was originally a b-side to ‘Lay Me Down’, a pseudo psychedelic effort with an altogether easy charm. The Mock Turtles were an enigma who were capable of bright rays of glorious pop as well as a fair percentage of pedestrian gambles on what a madchester anthem should sound like. But any group capable of the kaleidoscope of noise that is ‘And Then She Smiles’ deserves a mention in the annals of rock history. The song flings shards of Hammond and knits threads of jangle into a vocal turn that portrays all the excitement of what it feels like when a girl you fancy smiles back. i KD /i br / br / span class="mp3" a href="http://www.mp3hugger.net/The Mock Turtles - And Then She Smiles.mp3" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status=' ';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" The Mock Turtles - And Then She Smiles /a /span br / br / STRONG Rate This Tune! /STRONG div class="js-kit-rating" path="The Mock Turtles - And Then She Smiles" title="The Mock Turtles - And Then She Smiles" starColor="Golden" /div br / br / i a href="http://indieviduel.blogspot.com/2007/09/mock-turtles-lay-me-down.html" target="_blank" Watch The Video To Lay Me Down /a /i br / br / STRONG More Info: /STRONG a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mock_Turtles" target="_blank" The Mock Turtles /a br / STRONG Buy Album: /STRONG [UK] a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000008IJJ?ie=UTF8 tag=indiecaterrec-21 linkCode=as2 camp=1634 creative=6738 creativeASIN=B000008IJJ" target="_blank" Turtle Soup /a img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=indiecaterrec-21 l=as2 o=2 a=B000008IJJ" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" / [US] a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000008IJJ?ie=UTF8 tag=mp3hugger-20 linkCode=as2 camp=1789 creative=9325 creativeASIN=B000008IJJ" target="_blank" Turtle Soup /a img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=mp3hugger-20 l=as2 o=1 a=B000008IJJ" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" / br / STRONG Year: /STRONG 1990 ...read full story