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okay so they weren't the greatest band ever. in their short career they resolutely failed to change the face of music as we know it, in fact they resolutely failed to achieve anything resembling chart success in their native uk or any other country. but i was 16 when tom verlaine scraped into no48 of the 1989 festive fifty and, at that time in life when music mattered the most, they were my favourite band. and that is why this site has to exist.
if you too were one of the floppy fringed cretins sticking the floors of indie discos around the turn of the nineties you'll know what i'm on about. they weren't shoe-gazers, they weren't baggy. they were a garage band with three guitarists and they got their money's worth out of all of them.
fred vocals/guitar jelb guitar tim guitar john bass guitar kev drums
they were also one of the many bands of the time who sold more t-shirts than they did albums. these days the t-shirts make only rare appearances, molded to the chests of perspiring geriatrics wandering around glastonbury, but the vinyl and plastic they pumped out during their brief time in the sun is still out there vibrating with their sound.
dr. martin gaiser august 2002. for further reading: does a blog have buddha nature?