The Wigs - File Under: Pop Vocal
#549
November 1981 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
The Wigs
File Under: Pop Vocal
Genre: neu-Power Pop
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Susie’s Got a Problem
First Time
Tijuana
Blood
You Say Ono
Requisite 80s cover:
“Mony Mony” The first time I ever heard this song was in a night club in Nashville on a road trip. I was unaware of the “Get laid, get fucked” element. That made me hate the song.
This version makes me love it all over again. And it’s perfectly situated as the Side Two opener. In case you forgot that this is a party band. Excellent!
There was a Power Pop renaissance in the early aughts. Bands like Martin Luther Lennon. The Wonderments. Wonderboy. The Masticators. Just delicious stuff.
One really stood out to me (among many) was Chewy Marble. The lead singer/bassist, Derek Anderson, would go on to front The Andersons and play for The Bangles.
He’s terrific.
Not that the lead vox for The Wigs sound like Derek. Just that the band reminds me of his early band. Maybe I’m crazy and pining for that era but…this doesn’t sound like the Power Pop that harkens back to the Raspberries, et al. Instead it harkens forward to that time where I got to see and play with the best of the best on the scene.
So this album is kind of weird. It belongs in a later era but it’s of the time of the Spongetones and bands like that. And that makes it so delicious.
The Bassist (a friend of a few Listening Posters) would go on to be one of The New Monkees. Good for him. He deserves whatever success would come his way because this album is a freaking treat.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/file-under-pop-vocal/304409520
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