FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #15: Pardon My Pussy
URGE OVERKILLÂ THE STULL EPÂ Â (Insipid Vinyl/Touch & Go Records IV-10, 1992)
Chicago power-trio Urge Overkill ultimately proved to be one of those “in-between” anomalies we sometimes stumble upon in the record world: too glammy and commercial for indie-rock snobs, yet too rough-hewn and tongue-in-cheek for serious corporate shilling. Like fellow Illinoisans Cheap Trick before them, UO should have been the ultimate teenagers’ rock group of their era, pumping out one hard-driving, head-banging smash after another while […]