The Other One Drops Dept.

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After releasing Black Vinyl Shoes, our footwear band of choice travelled back in time to record their sophomore album [rockspeak advisory - Ed.] Bazooka. The stunt misfired, drawing opprobrium from the critics, who asked why they didn't take the opportunity to prevent James Taylor from releasing Gorilla.

Re-entering the space-time continuum, they waited until 1979 for Bomp! Records to release the swell single Tomorrow Night, and then sold their souls to Elektra to cut Present Tense, their first album to sound like it wasn't recorded in a five dollar motel room. Head of Elektra at that time was billionaire recluse Don Ho [this is bullshit - why don't you look them up on wiki and copy-paste like everyone else? - Ed.] who paid for the studio to be redecorated as a Zion motel "to make the boys feel at home" and flew in their moms to cook their favorite meals. The result was a brilliant album simply ewzing with chewns that should have made them global stars.

Find out what happened in the next episode of It's A Shoe-In!