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	VH1.com : Prefab Sprout : Biography
		Prefab Sprout was formed in Newcastle, England, in 1977 by McAloon (who sings and plays guitar and piano) and his bass-playing younger brother Martin.
		Prefab Sprout returned to the studio without Dolby in the summer of 1985 and quickly recorded an album's worth of material that was initially meant to be released in a limited edition as a tour souvenir.
		Prefab Sprout, by this point consisting solely of the McAloon brothers, signed to EMI in late 2000 and delivered their Western-themed concept album, The Gunman and Other Stories, in early 2001.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/prefab_sprout/bio.jhtml (767 words)

	Prefab Sprout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prefab Sprout is an English pop band from County Durham which rose to moderate fame during the 1980s.
		Recently, Paddy McAloon was diagnosed with a medical disorder that has impaired his vision.
		However, he resurrected Prefab Sprout in 2000 for a short but well-received UK tour, and released the spoken word/instrumental album I Trawl The Megahertz under his own name in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prefab_Sprout (374 words)

	Prefab Sprout - Nottingham Live Review
		Having followed Prefab Sprout since about 1988 and disovered the delights of all their albums since, Prefab Sprout were one of the few bands that I have been genuinely excited to see live.
		Rumour has it that the Sprouts will be bringing out a new album before the end of 2000, provisionally titled Sleeping Rough, according to Q Magazine.
		A new single will be released which will be familiar to many, the title track to Sunday evening drama 'Where The Heart Is' but this is not one of their best efforts it has to be said; too unassuming and not ear-tugging enough to merit more than a 'oh, that's a nice song' comment.
	www.leonardslair.co.uk /prefablive.htm (777 words)

	Encyclopedia: Prefab Sprout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Prefab Sprout is an English pop band that rose to moderate fame during the 1980s.
		Though critically acclaimed, and by many concidered to have released some of the best pop albums of the 1980s, the band never broke through to the mainstream and had only moderate commercial success.
		A life of surprises: The best of Prefab Sprout (1992)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prefab-Sprout (254 words)

	Searching for the Holy Grail
		Prefab Sprout is a band in which each member has an important role to play - brothers Paddy and Martin McAloon, Paddy's girlfriend Wendy Smith, drummer Neil Conti and even producer Thomas Dolby, the band's virtual fifth member.
		At the beginning of 'The Ice Maiden', for the first time in the history of Prefab Sprout, she sings exactly the same lines as Paddy, as an equal - and this is one of the sweetest things you could hear on a record.
		The path that leads to the perfect pop song may well be tortuous, but the key lies somewhere in Prefab Sprout's records.
	www.scarletnights.com /elight/prefabsprout.html (1301 words)

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		Ostensibly, Prefab Sprout was promoting last year's two-CD retrospective "The 38 Carat Collection," which has finally been issued in the U.S. (as "The Collection") by Sony Legacy.
		The Sprouts were never much for playing live, and that particular road swing, for the double-length masterpiece "Jordan: the Comeback," did not pass through as many cities as it was meant to.
		Prefab Sprout's demos would probably be considered releasable, or even overly produced, by many artist's standards.
	www.chez.com /swoon/Stereophile.htm (1819 words)

	Prefab Sprout: The Collection - PopMatters Music Review
		Prefab Sprout, meanwhile, had come out of Newcastle, England as a vehicle for singer/songwriter Paddy McAloon.
		Prefab Sprout released a placeholder single disc "greatest hits" collection, A Life of Surprises in 1992.
		Prefab Sprout plans to release a new album in June 2001.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/p/prefabsprout-collection2.shtml (1693 words)

	SoundStage! Prefab Sprout - The Collection
		Be that as it may, Prefab Sprout tried to redefine the musical styles they recorded.
		Even after Prefab Sprout signed with Epic, their sound quality didn’t fall as much as might have been expected.
		Let me tell you how universal this music's appeal is. While I was listening to Prefab Sprout -- The Collection, my two-year old daughter -- the budding dancer in the family -- quit watching her favorite Barney video and toddled into my listening room to join me in boogieing to the music.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev321.htm (492 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Prefab Sprout - the Band - A793613
		Prefab Sprout is the name a pop band from the North East of England.
		Prefab Sprout starting life playing in a garage in a village in County Durham.
		It was Prefab Sprout on a tight budget, sounding pretty much as they did live.
	ftp.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A793613 (969 words)

	BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Prefab Sprout
		Allegedly taking their name from a mishearing of the line "hotter than a pepper sprout" in Nancy Sinatra's "Jackson", Prefab Sprout did not make their recording debut until 1982 when they recorded the self-pressed single "Lions In My Own Garden"/"Radio Love".
		Prefab Sprout's belated third album, From Langley Park To Memphis, was released in 1988 and became a major success worldwide.
		Another lengthy gap ensued before The Gunman And Other Stories, the first Prefab Sprout album to be recorded without Wendy Smith and their debut for new label EMI Records, was released.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio1/johnpeel/artists/p/prefabsprout (894 words)

	Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
		If he had his way there would probably be a Prefab Sprout album out every year.
		At the core of every Prefab Sprout record is a feeling of romance; not in the overly-sentimental Chris De Burgh sense but in an articulate, intelligent sense of longing.
		Recent outings for Prefab Sprout have veered towards the middle of the road and the first seeds of this were sown in 'I Remember That', in itself a fine song but it does give the impression of cocktail bars.
	www.leonardslair.co.uk /mcqueen.htm (505 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Gunman and Other Stories: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Previous Prefab Sprout records have offered varying degrees of homage to such American totems as Elvis Presley, Jesse James, Frank Sinatra, Faron Young and Bruce Springsteen, but this is where McAloon well and truly rides off into the sunset.
		Prefab Sprout's latest offering is more easily digestable than Andromeda Heights, a number of the tracks here might even make the charts with enough airplay on Radio 2.
		Highlights of the album include the brilliant Streets of Loredo, a dub beat(about as dub as Prefab Sprout go) with a chorus of Paddys:- there could be at least eight of them all singing in harmony here including the 'butch' one that pops up now and again.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005ARSV (1038 words)

	Prefab Sprout Links -=- A Life of Surprises
		Prefab Sprout - The Official Website (down at this moment, hope it would be back soon!)
		Myths, Melodies and Metaphysics: Paddy McAloon's Prefab Sprout".
		Prefab Sprout Chord Archive, used to be here: http://www.students.rhodes.edu/home/faculty/boswell/
	www.ferhiga.com /prefab/pslnk_eng.htm (292 words)

	Amazon.com: Two Wheels Good: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Softening the thorny style of their debut, Swoon, for this 1985 follow-up, Prefab Sprout committed one of the decade's most profound pop moments with "When Love Breaks Down." A sad testament to "the wrecks who leave their hearts," it's anything but wistful.
		This album was actually the first Prefab I ever bought, but it didn't really do it for me the first time, and being the poor college student I was, it didn't take much convincing for me to sell it a month later.
		The works of Prefab Sprout, AKA the songwriting genius of Paddy McAloon, is a prime example of this.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000264P?v=glance (1832 words)

	Music: Tiny Tunes (Weekly Alibi . 01-10-00)
		After releasing all of two new albums in the '90s, the convoluted masterpiece Jordan: The Comeback and the quietly lapidary Andromeda Heights, Prefab Sprout have released the second stopgap compilation of their 15-year career.
		Prefab Sprout's debut single, "Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)," and their first album, Swoon (represented by four tracks, including the brilliant single "Don't Sing" and the oblique piano ballad "Cruel"), are strange, knotty records, filled with non sequiturs, religious imagery and odd humor, which showed McAloon's promise without necessarily fulfilling it.
		Though it contained Prefab Sprout's biggest UK and U.S. hits, "The King of Rock and Roll" (also known as the "Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque" song) and "Cars and Girls" respectively, the seven tracks here are the collection's low point, sounding peculiarly slick and soulless in this otherwise remarkable company.
	weeklywire.com /ww/01-10-00/alibi_tinytune.html (1522 words)

	Prefab Sprout
		Sprout trivia is also included on this page.
		Links to other Prefab Sprout web pages, and to pages of other bands Sprout fans like.
		Background on my interest in the Sprouts and some thanks for those who have made these pages possible.
	www.browningmcintosh.com /plocktonwest/sprout.html (324 words)

	Prefab Sprout
		Seventeen of the 38 tracks were produced by Thomas Dolby, but Prefab Sprout - McAloon (vocals, lyrics), brother Martin (bass), Neil Conti (drums) and Wendy Smith (vocals-guitar) - hasn't been blinded by science.
		In America, "Two Wheels Good" (1985) was the lone Prefab Sprout album to chart, albeit briefly.
		"On the other hand, maybe Prefab Sprout fans have simply not heard the record, and there's the thing you have to face as you get older that you're no longer novel and that people's lives move on.
	www.pauseandplay.com /prefab.htm (1559 words)

	Amazon.com: The Collection: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A few young musicians were brave enough to use it for something other than constructing a new set of clichés, including Newcastle's Paddy McAloon and his band, Prefab Sprout, who became cult faves in the bargain.
		However, it's good to see that Epic/Legacy has kept the set intact; given the general lack of awareness of Prefab Sprout's existence in the U.S.,the label could have made a case for whittling things down to a single disc, or passing altogether on its release.
		Prefab Sprout has consistently managed to combine tasteful arrangements and emotional content without coming across as either too restrained or too mushy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000058T7I?v=glance (1172 words)

	Prefab Sprout and Michael Jordan?
		In 1990, the English pop group Prefab Sprout, led by singer/songwriter Paddy McAloon, released the album "Jordan: The Comeback." The album contained 19 songs, considered at the time to be a series of tales involving a Howard Hughes-meets-Elvis character, and as well as some religious-themed music.
		It was not until the New Millenium that a prominent Prefab Sprout Researcher, Chris Wirtalla, unlocked the astonishing secret code of Paddy McAloon and Prefab Sprout.
		In the song "Moving the River" Prefab Sprout sing about "money for jam" --- Michael Jordan made money for jam(ming) a ball through a hoop.
	www.browningmcintosh.com /plocktonwest/jordan.html (754 words)

	Blurbomat \| Death Cab = Prefab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Death Cab for Cutie's new album (which has been on heavy rotation all weekend) sounds very much like selected songs from the Prefab Sprout ouvre, particularly their first, Swoon.
		I can barely remember Prefab Sprout, and I need to listen to the free track a couple more times, although on first hearing it I quite liked it, which is a good start.
		Prefab Sprout were one of my favourite bands when I was a younger, influenced by my older sisters!
	www.blurbomat.com /archives/2005/09/18/death_cab_prefab (2806 words)

	XTC Forum - Paddy MacAloon
		I didn't manage to hear it on the net, but I was a big fan of Prefab Sprout in the 80's...
		Prefab Sprout are another band which deserved greater recognition but have been denied it.
		I don't know why I lost faith in his abilities, as I agree with Klaus that Prefab's greatest album was in fact their last one, The Gunman and Other Stories and like Andy and Colin, Paddy gets better and better.
	www.xtcidearecords.co.uk /cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=36&topic=261 (1791 words)

	SearchCeleb.com - Prefab Sprout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leonard's Lair: Prefab Sprout - Review of a concert in Nottingham, England.
		Prefab Sprout - The Official Website - Video, photography, discography with music samples and other features.
		Prefab Sprout SongBook - Lyrics to most Prefab Sprout songs, a tool for printing cassette labels and links to sites selling their albums.
	searchceleb.com /celebrity/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/P/Prefab_Sprout (118 words)

	Prefab Sprout Site: A Life of Surprises
		Also, don't forget to get the last copies of the only book about the Sprouts.
		Besides his book, he is also selling some cds left from his fanzines and a lot of memorabilia from the Sprouts.
		the famous Prefab fan who created and developed the fanzines and the only book about our beloved group, has informed me that he still have some copies of the book left.
	www.ferhiga.com /prefab/eng.htm (233 words)

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		Despite being already finished (promo copies are already circulating) the new Prefab Sprout album, 'The Gunman and Other Stories', will not be released before June 18th, according to the band's official website.
		'The Gunman' is Prefab Sprout's seventh studio album, the first on EMI Liberty.
		It is said to be a landmark in the band's career, even if early previews have not been enthusiastic.
	web.tiscali.it /rainsound/news/2001_05_05_prfb_sprt.htm (165 words)

	Prefab Sprout in general - Archive Music Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Prefab Sprout in general : A Life Of Surprises
		Prefab Sprout [Background: The early eighties provided a real hotbed of brand new and innovative pop music emanating from the UK.
		One of the lesser known groups of this time were Prefab Sprout, the brainchild of lead singer and songwriter Paddy McAloon.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /archive-music/prefab-sprout-in-general (182 words)

	Prefab Sprout - A Life of Surprises
		Prefab Sprout - A Life of Surprises (1992)
		Antonio Banderas leaves his mark on every film; in his latest, the mark he leaves is a big "Z." Find out more here.
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Prefab Sprout - A Life of Surprises to receive a rating.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/prefab_sprout_a_life_of_surprises (361 words)

	eBay.co.uk - prefab sprout, CDs, Records, Cassettes items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Prefab Sprout - A Life Of Surprises (The Best Of Pre...
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		Prefab Sprout, "From Langley park to Memphis" album
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	TWAS 337: Prefab Sprout, Nik Kershaw, Neil Finn, Mark Seymour, Ian McNabb
		I believe we are supposed to think that Prefab Sprout leader Paddy McAloon has a thing about the Old West.
		But I had no reason to want Prefab Sprout to make a cowboy record, so I don't much mind that this isn't one.
		All I really wanted, in fact, after 1997's Andromeda Heights made no impression on me at all, was for this album to contain some distinguishable Prefab Sprout element, and it didn't really matter to me whether it was one of the ones that used to distinguish Prefab Sprout, or something new.
	www.furia.com /twas/twas0337.html (2931 words)

	RollingStone.com: Two Wheels Good : Prefab Sprout : Review
		At times, Prefab Sprout resembles its British peers: singer/songwriter Paddy McAloon can reach Glenn Tilbrook's breathy upper range or Elvis Costello's husky whisper, and his chordal guitar playing on the single "When Love Breaks Down" echoes the modjazz cool of the Style Council and Sade.
		But the bulk of Two Wheels Good is as far from pop – not to mention rock and roll – as an amplified quintet can wander.
		There are a few compelling musical moments on side one, particularly the guitar, harmonica and synth tangle at the fade-out of "Faron." Two Wheels Good seems to be a vast improvement on their flat debut until the Sprouts wilt on side two.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/124934/prefabsprout?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1 (364 words)

	eBay.co.uk - prefab sprout, CDs, Records, Music Memorabilia items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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