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"... early stuff: lame Batcave goth ..."
I'm with you nearly one hundred percent concerning that assessment.
However, after tracking down all that early crap on Napster back when
(and downloading it on a very slow dial-up connection over the course of weeks and weeks ... oy vey!), I was quite taken with the last EP of material ("Sunny Sundae Smile") that they released with the old singer. Especially that title cut. It's a real beauty.
It's not at all "gothy" and is in fact buoyant and quite hooky ... qualities that become especially apparent after you've listened to the previous slew of ... lame Batcave garbage.
Of course, it's all idle speculation about what the band might have done if they hadn't changed things up. I prefer things the way they turned out ... which is fortunate, because there's nothing to be done about it anyway.
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That was a toy? Where do you plug it in?
...and who the hell is that locked up in the holding cell, anyway?
