Goodbye Mr. McKenzie – Good Deeds and Dirty Rags (1988)

Well, was it the name of the band (a short novel written in the Nineteeen-Twenties by Jean Rhys) or the brilliant cover on the CD single ‘Good Love Child’?  But I bought the single anyway and was instantly a fan of this Scottish post-punk, who incidentally featured Shirley Manson as one of the singers who later was a founder member of Garbage.  The band had a great rocking sound, not quite like anyone else, and an energy and wit and ofcourse – secret ingredient – great songs.  They never enjoyed great success, but there you go – wrong place and wrong time I suppose.  Anyway this was another excellent debut, which they continued with a handful of great albums before they inevitably broke up.  Best track – The Rattler.