i stumbled across this band when i was very young. to this day, they still make the hairs on my neck leap off my body. i got Mezcal Head from the Belfast Music Library cos the cover looked interesting. 2 songs in i connected them to a TDK90 tape i was given by a mate a few years earlier. it had this song on it & no inlay card. jus 'son of mustang ford' scribbled on a label. i will never not own albums by this band.
Thanks to the guy who commented on deftones’ be quiet and drive away video for the suggestion of this song. Without knowing this song’s and band’s existence, I would have not discovered a gem.
Great... i'm more into grind and death, but these bands are one of my roots (Ride, Boo Radleys, Swervedriver, Slowdive, Telescopes...). I'm 46 now and i still love this song.
"There's kids on the corner, wanna beat-box my brains to bits" 6-7 years before this was released, I was one of those kids! Then I got into my 20's as an introspective shoegazer type - as one does - and found the heaviness of Swervedriver was the right sound for me. Still love them in my 50's.
Just put me neck out headbanging in the kitchen listening to this. For a few minutes there I was back in the Planet X in Liverpool in 1991, but for the next few days I'll be a 52 year old nursing a sore neck and wondering where the last 30 years went. What a song.
A band with it´s own signature. I don´t want to know what happened "afterwards". It´s powerful / talented and really broke through my heart of steel in the nineties. And I have a lot of swedish friends who feel the same way.
Great band. Saw them live twice in the 90’s. Even more powerful live. Perfect mash between Stooges, Monstermagnet and British twee indie pop. Absolutely brilliant band.
First song I heard by them on the Chart Show in 1990. The guitars are heavy as shit but also super psych and interesting. I'd certainly never heard anything like it at the time. The song is still immense. Get something /hear something new each time I hear it. And I've heard it a lot over 30 years. Adam, if u need a drummer for a tour, I'm in
I'm ashamed to learn of these guys 30 years too late yet I have always loved English rock bands.Amazing, they are like the My Vitriol of the 90s more cred to Brit rock ,like it needed any more😉
These guys passed me by back in the day, only time they were on my radar was when the supported The Wonderstuff at Bescot, grunge before we were into grunge, shoulda known when the real cool kids were wearing their t-shits
I’ve been a fan since ‘92 and never knew this video existed. It’s a terrible video for such an amazing song. I don’t think their record label understood them at all. Their songs capture that restless feeling of ‘there’s got to be more to life… so let’s go find it.’ It’s such a youthful sound that’s so easy to kind of get lost in. Like getting in your car and just driving to nowhere, losing yourself and finding yourself at the same time.
When you listen to current shoegaze bands it's the same thing as listening to this. This band is very influential even though few people know it... crazy.
