Garbage Days Revisited #102: Crazyhead - "Desert Orchid" (1988)
"Gonna dim the lights, gonna draw the blinds, gonna blow that fuse, it could be mine..." - Crazyhead - What Gives You The Idea That You're So Amazing, Baby? Here's the thing right - if Desert Orchid had come out in about 1992-93 then I guarantee you, I'd have been all over it. Unfortunately though, it came out that crucial two years before I'd started properly getitng into guitar music and hence this band very much passed me by. Crazyhead were an early doors grebo band from Leicester who sprung up around the same time as the original progenitors of the movement - the Wonder Stuff (obviously), Pop Will Eat Itself (once they'd got out of their awkward C86 jangly stage), Gaye Bykers on Acid (who sadly I was never that big a fan of - sorry guys), Diesel Park West (the indie face of the movement) and of course the Tattooed Beat Messiah himself, Zodiac Mindwarp . Sound-wise, they were a bit of an odd one - almost like an exact halfway house between the gl...