Harriet The Spy – Retardo y Retardo (Live Video)

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Harriet The Spy – Retardo y Retardo
Detroit Fest
Knights of Columbus Hall
Detroit, MI
4/6/96

I don’t recognize this song, but I have to confess that I haven’t converted a lot of my Harriet The Spy 7″s to mp3s yet and I was too lazy to pull them out and listen to them to figure it out. I had the opportunity to see HTS a couple of times and seeing this video makes me remember why they were one of my favorite live bands.

Update: Thanks to Ben for ID-ing the song. And after a quick Google search, apparently a lot of their 7″ recordings are all on the “Anthology” CD, which I need to get ASAP…

Download: Harriet The Spy – Retardo y Retardo (Live Video)

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4 Comments

Ben says:

December 11, 2007 at 12:23 am

That’s “Retardo y Retardo”

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screamsfromthegutter says:

April 15, 2008 at 7:13 pm

AMAZING! one of the greatest bands ever. Yes, get Anthology!

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Matt says:

September 22, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Can you please please please at some point post every Harriet the Spy video you have?? That would be great.

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Kevin says:

September 22, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Unfortunately there’s very little HTS footage out there, this clip was pretty much it…

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