Song Of the Day: February 20, 2005
Another great 45 from the Susstones/Prospective empire, this one from a San Diego band formerly known as Manual Scan. Not so overtly mod as the Scan, The Shambles continued lead singer Bart Mendoza's development as a pop craftsman of consummate skill. His songs are simple, intelligent, and...kind. Using a very traditional (some would say "used up") vocabulary of boy/girl relationship settings, Mendoza is able to make his songs sound like pleas for respect and dignity without resorting to any cheesy hippie-isms. A look at the picture sleeves of the fine string of 7" gems the Shambles have fashioned betray Mr. Mendoza's longings for a mod, mod, mod, mod, world, but the sound is often as not based on 60s folk rock, with requisite harmonies and vigorously strummed acoustic guitars.
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