![]() French magazine Rock & Folk referred to them as “The bridge between Television and Radiohead.” This is, of course, utter nonsense. The resemblance falls off sharply after that. The first song has singer Parker Dulany doing his best Lou Reed impression about 2/3 of the time. ![]() Savage Young Generals also has a cover, this time of Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida. I like interesting covers, so this is intriguing. On Dead Rabbit Gang, there is a cover of “Strange Fruit.” You know, the classic Billie Holiday tune (written by Lewis Allen) about the racist south. Disc two is a live set from a few years before the time these songs were being recorded entitled Savage Young Generals.īefore I say anything about the music, let’s talk about the songs. It appears to have quite a cult following. November’s Heat appears to be the Certain General album I, of course, have never heard it. The tracks would have become the follow up to November’s Heat, but they didn’t. This album is two albums: The first disc, which is the one I will be addressing here, is called Dead Rabbit Gang, and is the first release of a number of studio tracks recorded 1984-5. Some research, however, reveals that they are a band formed in NYC in the early ’80s, playing an esoteric mixture of post-punk and pop. This band is so obscure that Allmusic, though it knows they exist, doesn’t have a biography up, and Wikipedia doesn’t recognize them.
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