Friday, August 20, 2004

The Rebel Pebbles - Girls Talk

I suppose I'm a fan of girl groups. The Go-Go's, The Bangles, The Pandoras, L7, Heart (yeah, yeah, I know they don't count but still...). The thing is, though, I don't really think of them as girl groups. I know there are women in the groups and all but I tend think of them as just bands. The Rebel Pebbles, on the other hand, I do think of them as a girl group. Girls Talk came out in 1991 and I had never heard of it until a month ago (it came out during the KNAC years so I wasn't hearing a lot of non-metal at the time, I suspect). Anyway, it's not a bad album (way out of print but you can find it used for cheap--I did). Sure there are some clunkers (did 1991 really need a song called Groovy Love?) but it also has a few gems like How Do You Feel and the way-too-cute Eskimo and Butterfly. I have to mention Anthony's Attic, a song about--I kid you not--how sexy intelligent men can be (it manages to be both sexy and weird at the same time). The band (with ex-Pandoras drummer Karen Blankfeld playing guitar) released their one album and sort of disintegrated (on-the-road stress, etc. though the impending Nirvana tsunami might have had something to do with it). I figure I'm not the only fan of girl groups that had not heard of them, so I submit for your approval: The Rebel Pebbles.

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