As with close compatriots the Jazz Butcher, the Woodentops didn’t fit neatly into the prescribed 80s indie scene.
‘Wonderin’ Y’
Slade’s B-sides were often as good, if not better, than their A-sides.
‘Stephen’
A goth band that time forgot, Gene Loves Jezebel did their greatest work in the shadows.
‘Cast Your Fate To The Wind’
A hit when jazz was widely considered out of style, ‘Cast Your Fate To The Wind’ set the course of Vince Guaraldi’s career.
‘Lying Again’
If Bob Geldof shamelessly wrote the A-side with a hit single in mind, it’s one whose chorus lyrics (“She’s so 20th century/She’s so 1970s”) dated as fast as its cartoon bombast.
‘Herr X’
Pretensions in the revamped camp Ultravox went far beyond singer Midge Ure’s angular sideburns and Burberry raincoat.