from the LP Mental Floss for the Globe, Ariola Benelux Records, 1989I remember the first time I saw this video on MTV, all these guys & girls just hanging out at some crash pad, skating a halfpipe that they’d thrown up in the backyard, playing guitar, probably getting high---I was like, “yo, that’s how I want to live at some point in my life!” It was just that simple: cool song, cool looking people, obviously the way to go… This track came totally out of leftfield when it hit, and it’s still difficult to stick a label on the kind of music these cats were putting out, released at a time when the term “alternative rock” was serving as a nice catch-all for crews like this. The vibe here is so organic and spontaneous, but as I sit listening to this now, twenty years later, I am suddenly struck with a horrible idea: could this track be part of the influential foundation which gave birth to all that contrived crap from such d-bags as Jack Johnson & G.Love? I hope not, for UDS’s sake, I sure as hell wouldn’t want that shit on my conscience…
