The Perfect Disaster - Bluebell video

This song is off my cassette compilation called "The Great Fire of London" by Fire Records (the band's label at the time). The whole compilation is excellent and worth hearing if you're not familiar with groups like the Blue Aeroplanes, Close Lobsters, and The Rose of Avalanche. Who are the Perfect Disaster? "Singer/guitarist Phil Parfitt and guitarist Dan Cross have been the only constants in this fascinating and prolific English band's intricate genealogy. (Part of an early incarnation transmuted into Fields of the Nephilim; ex-bassist Josephine Wiggs joined the Breeders and made a solo record in 1996.) Typified by constant artistic tension and a habit of shifting direction as frequently as possible, the Perfect Disaster is a strange bird, but one worth keeping an ear on. The restrained and debonair (but far from slick) suave-pop on Perfect Disaster (their first album) gently builds alluring, occasionally rocking (with a bit of sax and even feedback), arrangements around Parfitt's deep, character-laden voice. With a cover of Lou Reed's "Over You" to underscore affection for the Velvets' pretty side and such tunefully neurotic Parfitt originals as "What's Happening to Me" and "Hiding from Frank," this stylelessly inventive collection — easily commendable to fans of Aztec Camera — is a most auspicious debut. Two of the four new songs (including a weird Vietnam-war number entitled "The Night Belongs to Charlie" that later turned up, in a different recording, on Asylum Road ...