Forgotten Beatitudes

Yeah, indie rock was fun.

Velocity Girl was fun.  Geeky college rock for geeky college students that surpassed geek and became ultracool.

The thing I liked about Velocity Girl was that, in the middle of the early/mid 90s, when pop became as evil a word as disco did in the early 80s, Velocity Girl wore their pop sensibilities proudly on their sleeves.  Catchy hooks, actual melodies, bubbly sounds and complex but comprehensible lyrics all over the wall-of-sound chunky guitars that we can blame grunge for.

I love this video so very, very much.

I’ve never been sure why Velocity Girl weren’t bigger.  Only a few years later, Weezer came along and alterna-kids from coast to coast creamed their jeans for the exact same sound.  Well, not the exact same sound, Weezer was a huge sausage fest.

There’s also a lot of comparison between Velocity Girl and Lush, for some reason, which I’ve also never understood.  The sounds are completely different.  Lush’s sound, even when it was barreling over you in all of it’s dreampop goodness, always stayed etherial, partly because of the vocal work of Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson.  Velocity Girl, however, ran as far as they could with the grunge sound and made it…well, sound fun.

Maybe it was just having women front the bands?