Severed Heads - Big Car

Severed Heads was an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 (see 1979 in music) as Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, and were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright eventually left the group, leaving Ellard as a singular talent, the sole continuing member of the group. A variety of people played in Severed Heads, including Garry Bradbury, Paul Deering, and Stephen Jones, but over time the group devolved to Tom Ellard. In early 2008 he announced that Severed Heads was now defunct and that no further creative output would be released under this name.

Album: Rotund For Success
First Released: 1989 by Volition. Last Issue: 2004 LTM

Tracks: All Saints Day, Triangle Tangle Tango (Rewind Indecision), Bad Times Too, Midget Sings (Black Midget), 7 Miles, Greater Reward, Big Car Intro, Big Car, First Steps, Rotund For Success, Lovesick Fascist Meathead, Chasing Skirt, All Saints Day Original, Bad Times Three, Star Spangled Banner, Bombs Fell, Lovesick Fascist Meatloaf

Official Site: http://www.sevcom.com/
(Great media site)

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[DungeonStudio]

Where did the version of this song appear? I think this was on Rotund For Success, but doesn't sound like I remember it? Tom on the little car is classic though! Good find. :)

[SirVixsAtomic]

The version on the album is different not as 90's house sounding as the video version. (this version reminds me of Information Society)

[catflipper]

Thanks for posting.  Very underated song from the early 1990s.

[DeadDoll1977]

ah yes... pure bliss ;) love it!

[NeoTokyo2006]

This is the remix from a dear departed friend and collaborator, Robert Racic. Check out Retread..the remix has a detuned voice saying "Vulva" (Robert's sister) and yet another of his little in-mix jokes that never failed to make me laugh. From 3"10 you can hear it!

[MrMbland]

radical clip ..

[freudastaire]

@worshipper777 SPK are wonderful too, but much more raw industrial than most SH catalogue. And what about Rip Van Hippy or Shaolin Wooden Men? Australia rules.

[worshipper777]

@ringspun01 What about S.P.K.? ;))

[freudastaire]

Australia > Ibiza

[tNJippoes]

Severed heads were just another great aussie band ignored by the same crap radio stations pumping out crap in Sydney today thank christ for JJJ

[phoboskitty]

@DungeonStudio its on a remix CD with this version and a few others

[DungeonStudio]

@howmer001 Appreciate it. But I got so much Heads stuff as it is, I think I'm good for now. :)

Might get back to you on that though. Thanks again.

[howmer001]

@DungeonStudio It's not the "Rotund For Success" album version - this video song is off of a three-song EP, Severed Heads' "Big Car EP", released in 1990. The version above is called "Big Car (Limo Mix)", the second (and shortest) of the three songs on the disc. I've had this on CD for years; let me know if you want it, and I'll forward you the MP3 files.

[irvinejump]

@DungeonStudio it MIGHT be on the "Retread" EP which came out in 1991 from memory... I'm not home right now so I can't check.