(TV) Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?

[Scott Simpson <SSimpson@nyc.rr.com>]

Michael Moore said that Americans are the only people who don't get irony.

I guess that's the only way to explain how Mr. Ficca's 80's project, the 
Waitresses, still don't have the recognition they deserve.

For my money, the Waitresses were among the best bands of the 80's and I 
would stack their concept album, Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?, against 
anything you got.  Catchy bubble gum pop tunes with acid-spewing lyrics 
skewering the ideals of 1950's Americana.  Guess what, those children of 
the 50's, raised in Levittowns, grew up to find the future not so wonderful 
after all.

But most people missed the irony and just saw them as a vapid one-hit 
wonder.  BTW, within the context of the album, "I Know What Boys Like", is 
meant to be (and is) sardonic.

The album is long out of print and my tape of it is dead.  If anybody has a 
crisp copy of WTW? or any live shows, I would love it if you could hook a 
brother up.

Scott Simpson
NYC
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