30 years ago, not only relates to Sgt Pepper teaching the band to play, but marks the release of Liar's Club's Drop Dead album. Now it has been remastered in a shiny fashion and is here for you all to enjoy. I absolutely idolised the quartet.
Remember those were the days before the internet and a bit like the Premier League, Music existed before those days and still does, just as Football did. However, you really had to dig things out and your musical life was not about likes and "friends" who you hadn't a clue were. It was about like minded people and great record shops spreading the word.
Liar's Club were special. They were involved in that 90s Power Pop wave, but weren't really of that scene, more Guitar Pop, all wit and melody and charm, a little like what The Supernaturals provided over here. Their Internet cred increased with 2013's reformation album, Come And Go, which remains in my favourite 10 albums of all time.
Our Anything Should Happen days celebrated Come And Go and made it Album Of The Year. Opening up a whole new audience to those heady 90s days. These Tacoma boys were so special and live on via Jayson Jarmon's Vanilla and Scott McPherson's many adventures since. I am proud to still be in touch with both.
So here you will hear the pure splendidness of what you've missed or reminded about what you loved. How heavy Charming is, how Andrew Gold Girl From Heaven sounds across its 38 seconds. How Brit Pop and jaunty My Heroin(e) sounds.
Then there is the wit and charm of The Redundant Romantic Fool is. The Beautiful South like Triage. The might of that solo on Someday and the let's do the show right here style of Marigolds And Coffee Spins with that Sax break.
This is an album that all should own. I compared the band to The Supernaturals, but that should be the other way round. For me, this is a reminder of great simpler times, but Drop Dead is an album that still sounds as fresh as it did then. A wonderful album, a wonderful band!
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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