Adorable - footnotes 92-94 (Cherry Red)

Back in 1992 i didn't know anything, i was simply a useless student with bad hair (nowadays a useless worker with bad hair) desperately trying to make sense of the indie pop scene i had recently discovered and wondering what path to go down. Then Adorable came to my attention with their incendiary single "Sunshine smile", pseudo-psychedelic feel and look exploding into mass guitar thrash and energy rage. It all suddenly made sense.

Adorable were one of Creation's "great white hopes" in the early 90s, following on from the shoegaze scene when that fell apart. Briefly Adorable shined with a string of amazing singles like "I'll be your saint" and the surpassable "Homeboy" with its bass heavy melody erupting into a sonic guitar attack of nuclear war proportions. The music press hated them of course but that alone should tell you that Adorable were pretty good. In fact they were more than that, they were brilliant.

Not flawless perhaps, this collection of tracks from their singles, can get a bit samey at times but when they were good, they were great and most of the time they were way better than that.