Mega City Four (discussed at length here) made their grab for the Big Time with a college-rock styled album, Sebastopol Road, that arrived in North America at the tail end of a wave of NME-hyped British guitar-dance bands like the Stone Roses and Ned's Atomic Dustbin that would be decimated by Nirvana. "Stop" was the stand-out from the album (and one of the few songs where the chorus had much to do with the song title).
The B-sides, such as "Back to Zero" show-off Wiz's (R.I.P.) fine song-writing too and, as was often the case, are better than some of the songs that made the album.
Stop 7"Sadly, one of the only ways (that I know of) to support the band is to buy "Tranziphobia" from Amazon or Cherry Red Records.
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I am a huge MC4 fan, but have to say that when Sebastapol Rd. was released I was disapointed. I would say it was the beginning of the end for such a fine band. This single is quite good, and yes you are right about the B sides, being top notch songs. This ep has them too. It just seems that the sugar rush, million miles a minute playing and just great tunes kind of dried up at this point, which is a real shame to me. Your blog is such a great blog and the amount of work you put into it is inspiring. Keep up the great work. I love this blog!! Oh and thanks for posting something about MC4. They were an amazing band!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteFirst off thanks for the great words, they help. Plsu Days of Our Yoputh kicks ass!
It does seem a little like the end came for Mega City Four sometime around here. On the other hand this album is stronger in the song-writing department than "Who Cares Wins" which was still working in sugar rush mode.