Grey Cell Evergreen.

No joke, Ned's Atomic Dustbin's Godfodder came out on this day in 1991!

A few months later I would see them open for Jesus Jones so I could review the headliner's set.* I know not everyone digs them, and many of my British pals slightly cringe when I proclaim I am a fan, but this debut was a perfect thundering mix of melody and guitars atop a truly rumbling rhythm section that my ears were thirsty for at the time. The group would never recapture this formula so perfectly again, but I can still listen to it from start to finish with a smile on my face. And while I do love the most popular single off this album "Kill Your Television," it's "Grey Cell Green" that hooked me into my initial fandom.

*It was a memorable night, complete with me cornering some Ned's players at the back bar of the Aragon when I stumbled across them on my way to try and find my show buddy since he'd taken a bunch of acid earlier. I found him in the bathroom staring at a sink as he turned to ask me if I too saw that it was filled with blood. And friends, it was (and not the best time for him to run into something like that. Yipes! But he was fine and we enjoyed the rest of the show together.