SUPERDRAG - SUCKED OUT from their 1996 album, "Regretfully Yours"
" " - DO THE VAMPIRE from their 1998 album, "Head Trip In Every Key"
I was psyched to see Superdrag in the lineup for one of Paste Magazine's parties at this week's SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas. This Knoxville, TN band provided 90's radio with sparkling pop with a punkish attitude that I myself loved to death. I don't normally like to focus on more than one song for Soundtrack of Your Life, but these singles begged to be reviewed simultaneously.
"Who sucked out the feeling?" describes everything that I feel about music these days. Ironically, this is the rousing call to arms that forms the foundation for Superdrag's 1996 single "Sucked Out," a badass tune about record industry greed and cluelessness; a popular theme with 90's rock bands, many of whom were often on major labels. Again, ironically, this single proved to do so well for Superdrag and its label, Elektra Records, that Elektra provided support for their next album on the condition that there be another radio hit just like "Sucked Out."
To this, Superdrag was like hell-to-the-naw, and took that money and made 1998's "Head Trip In Every Key," an album full of songs they liked but everyone else didn't, which yielded only one radio-friendly tune, "Do The Vampire." I am a fan of this record, and especially loved "Do The Vampire." It was one of my practice songs on my guitar after I first learned how to play at 19. Fun song to play and to listen to.
Please enjoy this extremely pleasant blast from the past:
That Caesar 'do was the Rachel 'do for white guys back in the 90's. Remember George Clooney back then? Future "House of Style" post!
Superdrag - "Do The Vampire" (2002 - Live at 12th and Porter, Nashville, TN)
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