Jill
was cutting my hair when Paul walked in. “I heard you just blew
up your band,” he said, “What happened?”
“They
didn’t want me to cut my hair,” I said. “I told ‘em
that’s enough! I’ve had it! You can all consider yourselves
unmirrorized!”
PM: How would you like to be a Styrene?
JK: I don’t know. Are these costumes involved? What does the future
hold?
PM: I can a promise you millions and a millions of dollars, world a wide
a fame, inner peace and a happiness, and eternal a bliss.
JK: Fantastic! Subsume me!
Well,
I don’t need to tell you, but that’s exactly what happened.
But it wasn’t easy. We submitted to the major labels but got nowhere,
fast. One replied, “The world’s gonna have to spin a few more
times before it’s ready for this.” Meanwhile they were signing
everybody they could get their hands on, and I mean everybody –
Peru: Boo!, Devoid, Racket From the Tubs, The DudBoys, the Pogroms, the
Pre-Tensions, Ton Deafey, Slow Children, the Co-Keds, the Inepts, the
Epts, Enormous Poufs, the Nearlys (everything they did was almost good),
the Sub-Morons, Fuckface Four, Jerry’s Kids (jeez, they’re
signing cripples now), the Swingin’ Appendages, the Superior Wangs,
and the Demented Humpers. They even inked Laughner, and he was dead.
— from Another Nail… liner notes by Jamie Klimek,
Mirrors
The
liner notes alone are worth the price of admission. It’s clear that
Jaime Klimek and his Mirrors are as gleefully damaged or as bubbly brutal
as anything that came out of 70’s CLE – if all bands were
like this, the world would be much better off. Klimek sounds like the
backwash from a McDonald’s Gluten Milkshake Product (that’s
a compliment). We’re as excited as pie here. Finally, this record
is getting a proper release and hopefully it won’t put us out of
business; the last label to put this out back in 1989 went under within
a week of the release date, having shipped a precious few copies of the
album—just another nail in the series of nails that have kept the
Mirrors and their Cleveland brethren 6 feet under ground all these years.
ROIR’s “Remodeled Nail in the Coffin” comes complete
w/ 15 bonus tracks culled from the Nail sessions and from sessions for
a never-released second LP.
“Premier power poppers…tumbling all bright and shiny out of
the speakers, the Mirrors snap and shimmer through wrapped-up bundles
of clever pop ditties, without holding back or playing suave and mature,
ripping into hooks and harmonies as energetically as 19 year-olds…and
while occasionally dizzying and confusing, the Mirrors’ pell-mell
approach…can also take one’s breath away.” –CMJ,
Nov. ‘91
"[Mirrors']
Klimek is Dylan as seen through broken Ray Davies' shades… it's
deadly genius." –Julian Cope
