[mp3] BEATNIK FILMSTARS

Beatnik Filmstars - "You Can't Fake Sadness Like This" (mp3)

The Beatnik Filmstars are a very rare example of a band that got substantially more difficult over time, eventually making one of the most prickly albums I ever remember hearing in the Guided By Voices "AM radio from Mars" style. This, anyway, is much earlier, with a faint Stone Roses influence but still a lot of fuzzy guitar. They put out a truly huge amount of music for a band that was only active about five years at the most.

[From Laid Back & English, not hard to find a used copy of on Amazon.]