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The Wedding Present were far less sophisticated both musically and lyrically than the Smiths but nevertheless they could make grown men cry into their beer and never more so than on this superb debut album. From the bitter, insecure yet defiantly feelgood Everybody Thinks He Looks Daft songwriter David Gedge turns an unerring eye on that most sticky and painful of subjects - true love gone bad. Gedge's lyrics are suffused with authentic Northern small town melancholy - all chips going cold at the bus stop in the rain - but their true focus was always the agonizing minutiae of those addictive but destructive relationship games we've all, at some point, denigrated ourselves to play. The songs were crude, fast and blustery guitar-heavy affairs but never so crude as to disguise the pretty, affecting melodies invariably tugging at their hearts. This winning thrash/pop constrast modestly prefaced grunge which was still four years away but more importantly it gave us such devastating classics as My Favourite Dress and A Million Miles - the latter being the best song ever written about the unrivalled thrill of meeting a pretty girl at a party when you're sixteen.

Forget what you've heard and listen!!
this band is right up there with the Pixes, Husker du and Sonic youth for greatest indie bands of the 80's just try and listen to your indie rock records after giving the Weddoes a spin and you'll see how far their influence reached.