TOAD THE WET SPROCKET

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET

Very poor name. Even poorer band“We were together longer than we ever thought we’d be,” said Toad the Wet Sprocket singer Glenn Phillips when the band gave up in 1998. Longer than the rest of us had hoped, too. But the California four-piece defied the odds for 12 years, even piercing the Top 40 with their R.E.M. readymades.Appalling fact Toad decided to have another go this year, playing dates with Counting Crows. Run.Worst CD Pale (Columbia, 1990)

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IRON BUTTERFLYE

IRON BUTTERFLYE
verything bad about the ’60s, in one easy-to-avoid packageLegend has it that this Los Angeles acid-rock quintet had consumed such massive amounts of marijuana during the 1968 sessions for “In the Garden of Eden” that keyboardist-singer Doug Ingle could only mumble the title. Hence, “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida” was born, and its unexpurgated 17-minute version (including a two-and-a- half-minute drum solo) inaugurated the dubious era of free-form FM radio.Appalling fact In-a-Gadda-da-Vida was the first LP ever to be certified platinum.Worst CD Sun and Steel (MCA, 1975)

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