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growing up with the radio in the early 90's was impossible to escape "kool thing"; it was also impossible to flip through spin and not see them mentioned every three sentences as the kings of kool and how kool they are and how great musicians they are because they are kooler than you. i hated "kool thing".
years later, while getting into at the drive-in, jesus lizard, drive like jehu, jimmy eat world, mineral, etc. i would see sy's name being tossed around by band members and the press to describe the skronky, noisy moments. checked out "teenage riot" and "schizophrenia" and thought they were like r.e.m. only slightly better.
afterwards, i saw a clip from later with jools holland of the band playing "sugar kane"; i pretty much watched it like 20 times in a row trying to figure out if it was the same band and getting my mind blown for every time i kept rewatching it. not long after, i bought dirty.
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