Doctors' Mob - Sophomore Slump

Name: Doctors' Mob
Album: Sophomore Slump
Year: 1987
Style: Punk, Alt-Rock, College Radio, "New Sincerity"
Similar Bands: Live, Redd Kross, REM, Gin Blossoms
"One-Word" Review: Jangly-Punk
Based Out Of: Austin, Texas
Label: Relativity Records

 Cover, Sleeve, Record

Back, Sleeve, Record

Sophomore Slump (1987)

1. It's Up To you 2:10
2. Sinking Fast 4:08
3. Poison 3:30
4. There's A Way 3:08
5. Pat Blashill 3:03 /
6. Let Me Try 2:37
7. Gracious Brunette 5:08
8. C2 E 2:45
9. Wake Up 2:34
10. I Don't Know 3:22

Album Rating (1-10): 7.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Tommy (Ramone) Erdelyi - Producer (Ramones)
• Steve Collier - Writing, Music, Vox, Guitar (Big Boys, Sidehackers, Rite Flyers)
• Don Lamb - Guitar, Vox, Remixing (Street Punks, Rhyth, Raiders, Captain Crunch, The Psychedelic Mirage, The Reivers)
• Glenn Benavides - Drums (Buick MacKane, Alejandro Escovedo)
• Tim Swingle - Bass, Vox (Hand of Glory, F)
• Mike Stewart - Engineer, Remixing
• David Fox - Cover Photo
• Linda Earley - Back Photo
• John Hamilton - Cover Painting
• David Bett - Art Direction

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. Could be jangly just by the name and the year, however one of the band members has a Misfits shirt on, so that could make for more of a punk-like edge, also they look kinda crusty, so that may make for interesting music.

Album Review: Part of the "New Sincerity" musical movement (ragged clothes & melodic songs played heavily), but also embracing the sloppy Drunk Rock moniker (Show up Drunk, Show Up Late, Or Don't Show Up At All), this band was pulled in multiple genre directions from the speed of punk melodies and harmonies of power pop, and jangley guitars, kinda sounding like a raw Gin Blossoms. But at the base of it all, they were musicians making good songs. Theyt didn't do well with "next big thing" pressure and really just want to have fun. This is their second album, and they've said it is mostly left over material that didn't get recorded for the first.

Stand Out Track: C2 E

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