The Proverbial Nail

The cat wants dinner. She's sitting in the window by this desk and staring at me intently. She's using all her tiny feline powers to will me into getting up and putting kibble into her bowl

It's not working.

She's wandered off now to sit beside her bowl and wait for me to get up to pee or something to begin a program of loud pained yowling to alert me to her impending demise of starvation.

She'll just have to wait.

the Hang Ups (2003)

So seemingly out of nowhere this one also happened.

I got it for free when we were shopping around for a place to press up some Cds for one of the bands I was in near the start of this century. This one place had a pile of discs that they'd pressed in the front for the taking so that you could get an idea of what they did and how well they did it. (It worked because they got our tiny business.)

Meanwhile the Hang Ups self titled fourth full length. It's a bit of a return. It's stripped back again with a lot less added production which suits these songs so much more. They can speak quite well for themselves.

It was released on Trampoline Records which according to Discogs seems to be a short-lived label owned by Pete Yorn, Rami Jaffee of the Wallflowers, and Marc Dauer and whose main claim to record fame seems to be several full length compact discs by Minnie Driver whose website does not appear to have been updated since 2015.

 

All in all, this probably wasn't a fantastic recipe for commercial success.

That being said. It's a pretty fabulous record.

It's one of those that if in another ten years there's suddenly a group of pop loving record geeks who start rediscovering the shiny pop music of the 90's and hunting it down for deluxe reissues will be a very hard to find and expensive original to get.

I'd suggest getting ahead of that curve while you can.

Listen to it and know I'm right and was right all along.

I sometimes am.