The year was 1996...and just like anyone who saw the new version of Romeo and Juliet...you heard a song that became immensely popular, The Cardigan's "Lovefool". I, like everyone else, got my copy of "First Band on the Moon" just so I could hear that track. After the song lost its luster and the album left my car cd book, my friend and I saw a music video for their second single, "Been It" on the only music station that my antennae would pull in, The Box, "Music television YOU control". After spending a couple of our precious dollars to play the video we were surprised with how much we liked it. I thought for sure that they, like so many bands before them, would become a one hit wonder and fizzle off into the sunset. What I saw in the video was that there was a lot more to the band.......unfortunately it took me a long time after that to pick up that album that I purchased years before from Media Play and discover its......for lack of a better word.....amazing-ness. I was holding onto gold. The album is extremely under-rated and tends to be brushed off by a lot of people because of Love Fool. But if you dig deeper, you'll find the entire album is much, much better than its #1 hit. Soon after that I skewered all of their albums. Their older albums, 'Emmerdale' and 'Life' set the stage for the Moon album. Like most bands, they had a hard time repeating that magic from there and stumbled with releases after that.
Their music is so sunny and happy....even in its darker songs. This band began an age of 60's/70's pop influenced music that I listened to non-stop back in 2005, I was obsessed, but that's another story. I have heard they have reformed and have played in the last couple months in Europe. They are in the top 10 current bands I'd love to see live. This is the track "Carnival" from the album "Life".
This is from their first album Emmerdale, "Black Letter Day"
Lastly from First Band on the Moon, "Your New Cuckoo"
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