Quote Originally Posted by Jim Clark
This is an odd one-The Frank And Walters-Glass. BarryL and perhaps Stone(?) turned me on to the band based on earlier albums and yet when this came out I was all alone. Never understood why they were abandoned by those guys. This album is far better than the last New Order album and that one wasn't too shabby either.

jc

I went looking for F&W (Frank and Walters) but they aren't so easy to find in my hometown, and I never got around to internet ordering. Thanks for reminding me of these guys.

About the same time I discovered F&W, I also discovered Fountains of Wayne (FofW). Now those guys I did keep up with. I enjoyed their last album, Interstate Freeway or some such.

Another undiscovered classic was the second album by The Webb Brothers. I think it was called Marooned. It's an album about slacker consciousness and self-destruction. Not very positive, but I think it captures the psyche of a particular subsegment of our youth today (drugs, sex, despair). I think I related it to Pet Sounds, not because it sounds like the Beach Boys, but because it covers the same sort of ground for a new generation.