SHRIEKBACK - "ALL LINED UP", A DUSTY DIAMOND FROM THE EIGHTES . . . . THOUGHT IT WAS COOL THEN AND HAVEN'T HEARD IT IN PROBABLY TWENTY PLUS YEARS . . . . TURNS OUT TO BE JUST AS FUCKING TRIPPY COOL NOW AS I REMEMBER IT BEING THEN . . . . MEMORIES OF POST GIG BAR CHASING, CRAWLING OUT AT SUNRISE, RAVING BEFORE RAVING, LIVIN IT X-LARGE AND LOVIN IT . . . . HAD IT ALL LINED UP.

THERE WAS A HELLUVA LOTTA SHIT MUSIC SPEWED OUT DURING THE '80's, PARTICULARLY OF THE ELECTRONIC PERSUASION, SHRIEKBACK WERE NOT PART OF THAT TURGID MIASMA OF MEDIOCRITY . . . . A KINDA SPOOKY/TRIPPY FEEL WITH THE VOCALS WORMING ALONG TO THE GROOVE, AND THE KILLER HOOK AND CHORUS, WRITING GREAT TUNES AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE FOR SOME FOLK . . . . WISH IT HAD BEEN THAT WAY FOR ME, BUT NOT BEING BLACK, JEWISH OR CATHOLIC AND FROM A FAIRLY SAFE, DULL, MIDDLE CLASS UPBRINGING THAT WAS NEVER REALLY ON THE CARDS.