Not All Bad in the 80s
Like so much music of the 80s, this band passed me by, my
prejudices having automatic blinkers. Listening to this new release [apparently
32 years after their last] I am swayed by the sheer fun of it, the
garage-psychedelia harking back now – and I’m guessing then – to a late 60s
fundamental and experimental garage-pop that is bright, breezy and often weird.
There are references in song titles and lyrics to their past that inevitably
pass me by because of what I have already admitted, so this will have more of
an impact for those who do recall. For now, it’s the immediacy of the driving
if simple beats and distortion and 60s organ and occasional fuzzed vocals and
sitar and other that I am enjoying. Like The Monkees on acid. Like early
[though not R&B] Rolling Stones. Like The Fugs but straight-ish.
If only their picture with the [actual] car had been their
album cover it could have been included…..
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