In Flac - covers are included
1. Don't Think About It
2. How Come
3. Any Day Now
4. Johnny Avante
5. Hang On To Your Man
6. Psychedelia
7. Big Yellow Bus
8. Left In The Dark
9. Diamonds In The Rough
10. Jackie's Gone
11. Teen Seen
12. Robbery
13. Put Your Toys Away
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Turn On Your Face
16. Try Again
17. Every Once In Awhile
18. Up Till Then
19. Mystery Of Love
20. Oklahoma
21. Honey Bee
22. This Before
Remastered retrospective from the founders of the Champaign, IL scene. 80's garage pop at it's best! Think The Replacements meets The Embarrassment. 22 track "Greatest Hits" compilation from the forefathers of the Champaign, Illinois rock scene. Includes "Left In The Dark", which was covered by The Replacements and Uncle Tupelo back in the day and more recently by Courtney Love! In the early-80s, the patron saints of the Champaign, Illinois music scene were a four-piece band named The Vertebrats, whose brand of simple, urgent, garage-rock --influenced by 70s punk and the British Invasion rock of the 60s-- defined the budding music scene. The 'Brats were raw, dynamic and unpretentious, raised on The Clash, Rockpile, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Ramones, and Neil Young, and empowered by their peers, like The Replacements, Husker Du, and Mission of Burma. Ironically, what makes the band sound so vital today is probably the same thing that kept the 'Brats from getting a record deal in their prime. The band's music was too tuneful to make them "punk", too rough around the edges to qualify them as "new wave". Despite their rave reviews in the rock press of the day, shortsighted label executives didn't know what to make of their approach.
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Special thanx to JPaul for this brilliant contribution!