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The Cocker Spaniels
12+ albums
diyrockindiealternativelofi
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The Cocker Spaniels began Christmas 1994, when then 13-year-old Brooklynite Sean Padilla received a Yamaha MT8X and a drum kit for Christmas after years of collecting and teaching himself how to play other instruments (guitar, bass and piano). He immediately began recording the stockpile of songs he'd been writing since age eight, with his two best friends Alex Wing and Jonathan Koza helping him out. Together, they had a Sebadoh-like arrangement in which everyone sang, wrote songs and traded instruments. This arrangement didn't last very long, though. Over the next two years, Sean's family relocated to Pennsylvania and then to Texas, where he has lived ever since. Because of the move, Sean was forced to sing and play every instrument on almost every Cocker Spaniels song recorded from 1996 onward. He attended a predominantly black high school in Beaumont, and most of his peers there didn't know what to make of his music. They listened primarily to DJ Screw-influenced hip-hop and R&B, and Sean's experimental pop songs didn't sound anything like that. He often got booed by large crowds at local talent shows, and tables of his homemade tapes were occasionally overturned in the school lunchroom. You could say it was a case of "different strokes for different folks." As you can probably guess, Sean spent the late '90s creating his music in a vaccum, with an audience consisting mainly of himself and his friends. This began to change when he gained Internet access in 1998. The Inte
top songs
albums
Withstand The Whatnot
Sometimes You've Gotta Fight to Get a Bit of Peace
The Cocker Spaniels Are Still Alive, and So Are You
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Patronage Songs 2009
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Plays Well with Others
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Gratitude Session #1
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Sometimes You've Got to Fight to Get a Bit of Piece (Rough Mixes)
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Cops Don't Care About the Drip
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Austin Sound Sampler 2012
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The Blackwashing
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Sometimes You've Gotta Fight to Get a Bit of Peace (Instrumentals)
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Keep It in Motion: A Tribute to Guided by Voices Circa 20 Something and 12