THE RESPONSIBLE TEENAGERS, 'TEMPORARY FEELING' b/w 'OUT OF MY HEAD' (Responsible, 1980)
As the great soul-patch philospher and unmatyred monochrome t-shirt saint Aaron Lewis of the band Staind might say: 'It's Been A While.'
Been a while since my last real post and definitely been a while since it was fashionable for good, long-loined, round-eyed American wimp rock to garner any attention round the roost of this here blog. And to that I say no more! No more! With this post I demand a return to North American normalcy! A risorgimento of suburbanity! A return...to responsibility AND an excuse to post both sides of the Responsible Teenagers' excellent lone single!
Familiar to most from their track on Teeline (and to Evan Dando enthusiasts for containing a couple of pre-Lemonheads), this was the Responsible Teens' lone NYC bow from 1980 on their own Responsible imprint. Despite the 'R & R Warhead' tagline, the R.T.'s keep it short and play it clean; two beer limit cos they borrowed mom’s Volvo. And while the presumed A-side to this double B-side single has hogged the majority of the Hyped2Death spotlight (thus far), I'll stump like Stephen Douglas and go to my grave believing forever that it is the faux-Byrds-y, out-of-tune D.I.Y. flipper that is the true Most Likely To. Also, if you harbored any illusions as to the dwindling amounts of cache remaining within the reservoirs of Max's Kansas City's back- room at the dawn of the Nineteen Eighties, you need only glance at the rear-side of the sleeve and catch the trio of dweebs slack-assing (bespectacled unabashed) to realize that the well had long since been wrung dry.
Hop in the new wave car pool lane ahead for both spotty sides:'TEMPORARY FEELING'
'OUT OF MY HEAD'
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