Anyone remember Stiffs, Inc.?

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The looked like Victorian Goths and sounded like the Buzzcocks. Briefly great NYC band. One album --- that I'm aware of -- to their name, and then they sank without a trace (their last show was apparently sometime in `98). Weird thing about them is that their lead singer dressed like that all the time (I used to see him walking around the neighborhood). They made a great little racket for while -- if not entirely original.

Anyone?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I really listened to the hell out of that cd when it was new. I wonder how much the mis-management of Onion had to do with them fading away.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them at Irving Plaza once, and they verily rockethed out, I say, as silly as they were.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

really nice production on that record, good mix of dust-caked lofi with albiniish hardness. some decent songs too - that one about "quick watson, the needle" was nice

― mig (mig), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The frontman, Whitey, is now in a synth-pop outfit called Umbrella Brigade. I shared a bill at Pianos with them recently. The funny thing is that he still dresses like a demonic Victorian schoolboy. He just imported that image into a new band. Although, if you dress like that when you go out for groceries, can it really be called an image?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Still walking around in white powder, with everyone else well into 16 costume changes later.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think other ex-members were/are in the Brickbats - same look, much worse sound.

― anode (anode), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Great band, great guys. Their second album (after they left Onion) could have contended with all the new New York stuff (Rapture/Interpol etc) but beat it by a good four years when such sound was outta fashion.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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