Since We're Catching Up on 12" Vinyl from 1983

Here's another post of a 12" record by a band whose previous 7" contributions have already been posted nearly a year ago.

I had to do a bit of digging to find the original post because the band name is so forgettable that I'd failed to remember to even put it the original post itself.

That failure by omission was my fault.

The band was called the Groceries.

the Groceries (1983)

Here they are again. Pleasant, smart and smart ass. It's the Groceries. It being 1983 and we're already deep into Reagan's first term there's a bit of politics. Some more light ska. Lots of pop. Kind of insubstantial, but a few steps up from the previous singles. The playing and writing is certainly tighter.

 It sounds like summer of 1983 in the suburbs with the buzzing of a lawnmower in the distance and a light breeze in through the window. Maybe a plane is flying overhead. Maybe it just passed. But you're lying in bed with big bulky headphones on and feeling just ever so mildly rebellious at listening to something weird.

I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing.