The Clean - Live at Fabrik, Hamburg (23-04-1990)

Another gem!!

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The Clean - Live in Dunedin (1982)

Super ultra rare -impossible to get nowadays- show by The Clean in Dunedin in 1982. One of the last shows before they broke up in the 80's. A forgotten not-of-this-world gem now rescued and shared for everyone!

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The Clean - Live in Auckland (1981)

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 Early Live Performance. Audience Recording. True Fans Only. High Quality!!!!!

The Clean - Live At The Otago Arts Festival (October 2001)

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The Clean - Live in Auckland (1982)

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Audience Recording Complete "In-A-Live Situation" Concert

The Clean ‎– Late Last Night (1994)

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The Clean - Live at Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona (29-5-2010)

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The Clean - Left by Soft (1981)

This is an audience recording from a gig in 1981. It has a 'Studio' side and a 'Live' side. No more than 50 were made. Very rare!

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Various - A Tribute to The Clean. God Save The Clean (1997)

This compilation pays tribute to the true kings of 'lo-fi' (it's no coincidence that Pavement and Guided by Voices put in appearances). In their first incarnation (they broke up around 1982 and then reformed at the end of the decade) they recorded on old 4 tracks and basically whatever else was available. This illustrates their DIY ethic. The title of this compilation comes from a piece of graffiti which, to this day, can be seen in an alley way in their home town. Tribute albums are a sketchy prospect at the best of times, so this is naturally a mixed bag. You get the aforementioned big-name foreigners, whose efforts are reasonable. You get peers of the band such as Chris Knox, the Verlaines' Graeme Downes who both put in surprisingly effective appearances. You get younger wannabes, some of whom show great promise. You get electronica acts who must be admired for their 'liberal' (i.e. unrecognisable) interpretations, yet seem clearly out of place due to the fact that The Clean are about as far away from sequencers and samplers as you could possibly imagine. One gets the feeling that such artists have been included merely for the sake of filling some kind dance music quota. All in all, this album is of marginal interest to anyone who loves the band already. For the non-converted it serves as a reasonable introduction, but I would recommend that you try and hunt down The Clean's own albums ('Compilation' captures the band at their absolute peak). Tally Ho!

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The Clean/The Great Unwashed ‎- Odditties 2 (1988)

"Odditties 2" was a cassette-only compilation of unreleased recordings, mostly live, by both The Clean and The Great Unwashed. The respective track artists were not printed on the insert; the entire release was simply credited to "The Clean/Great Unwashed." The current data was deduced based on the performance dates below; The Clean disbanded by 1983, around the same time The Great Unwashed formed.

There is only one known issue of this release; track 8, "Small Girl," was apparently omitted on the cassette's insert due to a misprint. The insert has distinct "marker pen graphics" illustrated by Hamish Kilgour (credited as "HRK"). Recorded between 1979 and 1984.

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The Clean - Live Dead Clean (1986)

Recorded at three different venues across 1981-82, this 12" ep appeared posthumously in 1986. With The Chills beginning to receive wider acclaim in the western world, it would seem interested was being generated in Flying Nun bands past and present. The Clean were seen as the forefathers of whatever the NZ scene was being pigeonholed as, so it seemed appropriate for a reappraisal via this collection of previously unreleased songs. In 1988 the three members by chance found themselves in London with their current individual projects and decided to play an impromptu gig at the Fulham Greyhound. Selections from this performance were released on the In-A-Live ep later that year, inspiring the trio into an off/on reformation that continues to this day.

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The Clean - Mashed (2008)

Mashed-Live is a collection of songs recorded at Wellington’s SFBH, Dunedin’s Regent Theatre and Harbour Lights in Lyttleton. Hamish & David Kilgour and Robert Scott offer a dreamy, languid journey perfect for a Sunday afternoon filled with their signature jangling guitars and great melodies.  The Clean have always been about great dreamy guitar pop and this album is no different, Lou Reedish, droning guitars building to crescendos and then falling again with David’s lazy, cool lyrical style take me back to the days of the Dunedin Sound and it’s great to reminisce and hear this style of music again. One of New Zealand's most influential bands - The Clean - live album featuring cuts taken from their March 07 New Zealand tour. The album was recorded and mixed by the very talented Tex Houston and contains classics like Point That Thing and Anything Could Happen, along with a new song and a surprise cover.

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The Clean - Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good (1982)

Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-so Sounds So-so, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten (usually simply known as Great Sounds Great) is the second EP released by The Clean, a lo-fi rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. It was released by Flying Nun Records on 12" vinyl in 1982. The EP is included in its entirety, and in the same running order, as part of The Clean's 2003 CD release Anthology.

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The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle (1981)

Although recorded quickly and on a miniscule budget, Boodle, Boodle, Boodle remains one of the great records of the early 1980s. The album was recorded by The Clean and scene mavens Chris Knox and Doug Hood on Knox's Teac 4-track recorder; it would be Flying Nun's third release (and first EP). Bassist Robert Scott remembers the recording and mixing sessions well: "We just selected a group of songs we wanted to do and recorded them quickly. We were in a small, wooden hall—40 foot by 40 foot. The hall had a really nice and natural sound. We just set our equipment up like we were doing a gig. We recorded and mixed it all in two days (September 7 and 8, 1981)." (Leach, Razorcake #62). Boodle, Boodle, Boodle sold in relatively large numbers, hitting number 4 in the New Zealand charts. It enabled Flying Nun to continue releasing records with much-needed capital. Boodle, Boodle, Boodle remains a highwater mark of New Zealand music.

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The Clean - Unknown Country (1996)

Recorded and mixed in two sessions during 1996, The Clean yet again prove to be masters of musical innovation, three guys who can only amaze when they come together and throw all their ideas down on tape. And as a mood of supreme grooviness is all-pervading on Unknown Country, this is The Clean at their most timeless.

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The Clean - Mister Pop (2009)

Despite the eight-year layoff since Getaway, Mister Pop effectively picks up right where we left off, with a pair of warm-up exercises-- the metronomic organ-grinding jam "Loog" and the possibly self-referential dream-pop ditty "Are You Really on Drugs?"-- that feel like vapor-trail echoes of its predecessor's distended, psychedelic haze. Even in light of the Clean's lo-fi legacy, the tracks feel demo-grade, built on single ideas that, while lasting only three minutes each, still feel run into the ground, begging the question of whether eight years was actually long enough for the song reservoir to replenish itself again. But such quibbles are cast aside 30 seconds into "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul", a headlight-bright jangle-pop pleaser (possibly about the new Beatles reissues?) that boasts all the hallmarks of classic Clean. On another track, David Kilgour makes an even more explicit reinforcement of Mister Pop's return-to-form intent: over a paisley-toned, mod-rock swing, he repeats, "It puts me right back in the day."

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The Clean - Anthology (2003)

While Split Enz came first and hit bigger worldwide, one could argue that there would be no New Zealand rock scene as it is known today if it weren't for the Clean; the sainted Flying Nun label was formed to put out their debut single, their willingness to go the D.I.Y. route in recording their early material set the standard for any number of bands (Kiwi and otherwise), and their playful yet aggressive mixture of pop hooks, jagged guitar lines, neo-Velvets minimalism, and edgy wit paved the way for the Bats, the Chills, the Verlaines, the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, and a handful of other bands who helped New Zealand develop its own musical identity for the first time. Despite their importance and longevity, the Clean have never been especially well-served on record in the United States; their important early singles and EPs received little circulation in America, and their post-reunion albums have been only sporadically available, thanks to the collapse of several indie labels. Anthology isn't the perfect remedy to this situation, but it comes close; it's a superb overview of the Clean's career, with the classic Boodle Boodle Boodle and Great Sounds EPs included in their entirety on disc one (along with several crucial singles and outtakes), while disc two skims off the cream of the later albums Vehicle, Modern Rock, and Unknown Country (four outtakes from the Modern Rock sessions are thrown in for good measure). A thoroughly enjoyable introduction to an important and influential band, Anthology will also fill in plenty of gaps in the collections of American fans; anyone with more than a passing interest in the Clean will find plenty to revel in here.

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The Clean - Syd's Pink Wiring System (2003)

The Clean’s Syd's Pink Wiring System is made up of material recorded in 2000 (tracks 1-9 recorded live at Sammy's, Dunedin, NZ on 13 Oct 2000 for a live Broadcast from Dunedin by KFJC 89.7 FM Foothill College, Palo Alto, CA. - 10-11 recorded live at Arc Cafe, Dunedin, NZ on 7 Nov 2000) & was released to help support the bands June 2003 US tour. The music here is chameleon-like, mesmerizing, improvisational…variations on many of their best tunes.

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The Clean - Slush Fund (2001)

EP Recorded Live at Marmalade on Radioactive, NZ Radio 28-2-1999

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The Clean - Getaway (2001) [Deluxe 2016 Remaster]

Getaway is a fantastic listen, filled with sparkling guitar, effortlessly catchy tunes and a forward-driving momentum that never fails to lift spirits. That’s reason enough to revisit the album — but Merge’s recent reissue includes a bonus disc that is worth the price of admission all on its own. The bonus disc packages together two limited edition Clean live collections, Slush Fund and Syd’s Pink Wiring System. This is utterly magical music, as the Brothers Kilgour (David and Hamish) and Robert Scott (also of The Bats) soar to impossibly lofty heights, whether finding new contours in a unique piano-led version of “Point That Thing Somewhere Else,” or blazing through an unbelievable eight-minute “Quickstep.” David in particular is on fire throughout, using his cohorts’ sturdy backing as a launchpad for endlessly inventive and powerful six-string fireworks. Quite simply, the dude is one of the finest guitarists, and his abilities are on full display here. God save The Clean!

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