the herald
august 31, 1996

a happy pocket - trash can sinatras (go!discs)

You have let me down very badly, all of you out there in Heraldland. I'm a-hurtin', yeah. Call yourself boss groovers, huh? Oh yeah, I can see you all now boasting about being sussed-out boulevardiers who are ever-so-hip to today's power-glide trip. Jades, ingrates, philistines, jossers...that's what you lot are. Because you didn't do what I told you to. You didn't buy the Trash Can Sinatras' two most recent excellent singles, "The Main Attraction" and "Twisted and Bent" in quantities sufficient to get them to the top of the charts.

Both songs are here on the Trash Can's swoon-inducing third album, so redeem yourselves now! Buy this album! Enhance your life! Re-learn how to weep for joy at the simple joy of pure pop! Quiver with unrequited love as Mr. Francis Reader and his cohorts resurrect and re-define Lulu's "To Sir, With Love." Ponder which science you'll leave your body to after you've danced yourself to death with "Make Yourself At Home." Forget Oasis and remember instead how you felt the first time you heard the Beatles sing "This Boy" and that'll still only be half as thrilling as discovering the Trash Can's "How Can I Apply...?"

How can you ever regain my respect? Buy this L.P. What's a happy pocket? A pocket that's been emptied of cash in the course of purchasing the latest edition of the Trash Can's ever-evolving emotional almanac, that's what.