Sounds From The Junkshop #10 - These Animal Men
“Lace your trainers, zip your top ‘cos you’re burning bright!!” - These Animal Men, Sharp Kid , 1994 I can't quite remember exactly when it was that These Animal Men first cropped up on my radar but I do know that for a band who made such a limited splash commercially, they were definitely a group who inspired a lot of people with the New Wave of New Wave movement that they were at the head of offering a glimpse into what seemed like a genuinely dangerous and controversial movement until the music press cut it off at the knees and watered it down to become its safer more well-behaved and more commercially viable bastard child Britpop. Our story starts in the early days of 1994. Like I say, I can't quite remember exactly where. Either...I read about TAM in the NME or Melody Maker (both of whom hyped the group to absolute high heaven in their early days). Or...I saw the video for their debut single Speeed King on the ITV Chart Show. Or...it was the time when I saw them on a ...