Limited vinyl LP repressing of the 1986 debut album from one of Chicago's most overlooked guitar Pop bands. The band has often been unfairly lumped in with every other Indie, Grunge, Power Pop and Post-Punk band that ever came from Chicago, but they are actually something entirely different. Imagine Ray Davies, Prince and Marc Bolan jamming in a garage in suburban Chicago and recording the results. While Green bypassed the major label-express that other bands rode to fame and fortune, they continued to make records their own way, records which were lauded in the pages of Trouser Press, Spin, and the Village Voice, among others. And with each passing year there are those many who are convinced that their debut LP is worthy of those Mojo/VH1/Spin/ lists of the top 50 or 100 rock albums of all time. Green were an all-embracing band, with a taste for punk, glam rock and soul-and with the twitchy sort of energy that burbled around in the late-80s, pre-grunge underground. It remains a mystery why so many other bands are fixed in the collective memory as the era's best; at the very least, Green should make a list of top obscure pop groups of all time!
Limited vinyl LP repressing of the 1986 debut album from one of Chicago's most overlooked guitar Pop bands. The band has often been unfairly lumped in with every other Indie, Grunge, Power Pop and Post-Punk band that ever came from Chicago, but they are actually something entirely different. Imagine Ray Davies, Prince and Marc Bolan jamming in a garage in suburban Chicago and recording the results. While Green bypassed the major label-express that other bands rode to fame and fortune, they continued to make records their own way, records which were lauded in the pages of Trouser Press, Spin, and the Village Voice, among others. And with each passing year there are those many who are convinced that their debut LP is worthy of those Mojo/VH1/Spin/ lists of the top 50 or 100 rock albums of all time. Green were an all-embracing band, with a taste for punk, glam rock and soul-and with the twitchy sort of energy that burbled around in the late-80s, pre-grunge underground. It remains a mystery why so many other bands are fixed in the collective memory as the era's best; at the very least, Green should make a list of top obscure pop groups of all time!
