The Spongetones

Perhaps one of the most underrated power pop rings from the ’80s, the Spongetones released several albums of effortlessly catchy electric guitar pop that captured the experience of ’60s Uk Invasion pop with remarkable precision and innocent attraction. While they hardly ever received much important or commercial interest, their music provides aged superior to most power pop from the period (past due ’70s and early ’80s), and among experts they’re extremely revered not merely for their studio room prowess also for their spirited concert events. They are mostly of the rings that gracefully continued at night “skinny link” fad in to the ’90s and beyond — much less tight revivalists but as something exclusive. The music group, made up of Steve Stoeckel (vocals, bass), Pat Walters (vocals, electric guitar), Jamie Hoover (vocals, electric guitar), and Rob Thorne (drums), started as a addresses music group in Charlotte, NC in the first ’80s. They agreed upon to the Ripete label in 1982 and released their initial full-length, Defeat Music, exactly the same season, following using the Torn Aside EP in 1984 — the last mentioned offering esteemed guests Don Dixon, Mitch Easter, and R.E.M. on handclaps. Stoeckel briefly left the music group, coming back in 1991. By 1987, it appeared the Spongetones wished to length themselves off their revivalist popularity, leaving Ripete and only the indie Triapore and saving most likely their most experimental & most un-Spongetones record, Where-Ever-Land. The record, made by Don Dixon, flirted with garage area rock, psychedelia, as well as the even more popular jangle pop — overall it marked a far more muscular and harder-edged strategy. The test failed generally and was short-lived. The music group signed to Dark Vinyl Information (possessed by power pop symbols Shoes and boots) and discovered a true house in 1991. There they made, in the mildew of their 1st two releases, probably their most concentrated Mersey pastiche, OK LAST ONE! Textural Drone Thing adopted in 1995. Furthermore to regular music group actions, Jamie Hoover released a single recording, Coupons Queries and Feedback, for Triapore in 1990, and in addition formed the Vehicle Delecki’s with Bryan Shumate, liberating Letters from your Desk of Count number S. Vehicle Delecki on Long term Press in 1996. Following a five-year music group silence, the Spongetones finally came back in 2000 using the recording Odd Fellows. #9 9 adopted in 2005.