Can anyone give me more info on this band/scene? I picked up thier album "All my friends are fish" in a bargain bin because the cover reminded me of me and my childhood friends. They are very ungoogleable but the album is great.
Any info?
You may have seen this, but the Wilfully Obscure blog did a
recent post (includes a download of their very good s/t 1987 LP) on The Downsiders:
"The Downsiders were yet another band to quietly emerge from the "new south" in the mid-80s, which makes the fact that Mitch Easter's omission in the credits as something of a surprise. The North Carolina quartet plays ringing, collegiate guitar-pop with the best of them, but tend to emanate to the more "downcast" side of the fence, in league with the likes of Dreams So Real and the Rain Parade. Over the course of what feels like a very lengthy nine-song album, The Downsiders grows a little redundant, but if you're an aficionado of this stuff, there's plenty of decadent nooks and crannies to excavate and revel in. The band released a second album, All My Friends Are Fish, on Mammoth Records in 1989."
I included their song "Goodnight Troll" in the Recap Music Set back in May:
http://www.recidivism.org/2008/05/deicide_2008.html
