13 Bands You Didn't Realise Were One Album Wonders
3. The Modern Lovers
Jonathan Richman was the true indie darling of his day and The Modern Lovers managed to tap into teenage angst the likes of which are normally only reserved for The Catcher in the Rye and Neve Campbell. Richman was the gawky, androgynous front man and The Modern Lovers music reflected his style; in many ways he was a sort naïve Iggy Pop. This was the only album that was made under the moniker of The Modern Lovers and its honest and romantic; its also some damn fine seventies rock n roll lest we forget. The count off at the start of Roadrunner, the reverb on Government Center, everything about this album is just dripping with a level of cool that neither you nor I could never possibly achieve. Im not one to normally quote lyrics, but Ill make an exception for Some people try to pick up girls and get called an asshole, This never happened to Pablo Picasso because you just cant not love it. The Modern Lovers made an album that captured the feeling of being hit with wave after wave of teenage hormones whilst reassuring you that youre not alone. Richman and other band members would go on to other musical endeavours, but they never captured the zeitgeist quite like they did with their eponymous seventies album.
