"[Mirror's] Klimek is Dylan as seen through broken Ray Davies' shades...it's deadly genius." - Julian Cope
Jill was cutting my hair when Paul walked in. "I heard you just blew up your band," he said, "What happened?"
"They didn't want me to cut my hair," I said. "I told 'em that's enough! I've had it! You can all consider yourselves unmirrorized!"
PM: How would you like to be a Styrene?
JK: I don't know. Are these costumes involved? What does the future hold?
PM: I can a promise you millions and a millions of dollars, world a wide a fame, inner peace and a happiness, and eternal a bliss.
JK: Fantastic! Subsume me!
Well, I don't need to tell you, but that's exactly what happened. But it wasn't easy. We submitted to the major labels but got nowhere, fast. One replied, "The world's gonna have to spin a few more times before it's ready for this." Meanwhile they were signing everybody they could get their hands on, and I mean everybody - Peru: Boo!, Devoid, Racket From the Tubs, The DudBoys, the Pogroms, the Pre-Tensions, Tōn Deafey, Slow Children, the Co-Keds, the Inepts, the Epts, Enormous Poufs, the Nearlys (everything they did was almost good), the Sub-Morons, Fuckface Four, Jerry's Kids (jeez, they're signing cripples now), the Swingin' Appendages, the Superior Wangs, and the Demented Humpers. They even inked Laughner, and he was dead. - from "Another Nail..." liner notes by Jamie Klimek, Mirrors
The liner notes alone are worth the price of admission. It's clear that Jamie Klimek and his Mirrors are as gleefully damaged or as bubbly brutal as anything that came out of 70's CLE - if all bands were like this, the world would be much better off. Klimek sounds like the backwash from a McDonald's Milkshake - unhealthy & sweet (that's a compliment). We're as excited as pie here. Finally, this record is getting a proper release and hopefully it won't put us out of business; the last label to put this out back in 1989 went under within a week of the release date, having shipped a precious few copies of the album-just another nail in the series of nails that have kept the Mirrors and their Cleveland brethren 6 feet under ground all these years. ROIR's "Remodeled Coffin" comes complete w/ 13 bonus tracks culled from the "Nail" sessions and from sessions for a never-released second LP.
The lone review for Mirrors' Another Nail in the Coffin (Resonance, 1989):
"Premier power poppers...tumbling all bright and shiny out of the speakers, the Mirrors snap and shimmer through wrapped-up bundles of clever pop ditties, without holding back or playing suave and mature, ripping into hooks and harmonies as energetically as 19 year-olds...and while occasionally dizzying and confusing, the Mirrors' pell-mell approach...can also take one's breath away." - CMJ, Nov. '91
Other Mirrors Press:
"[Mirror's] Klimek is Dylan as seen through broken Ray Davies' shades...it's deadly genius." - Julian Cope
From All Music.com
It can be said that wherever the good spaceship the Velvet Underground touched down, weird bands started to spring out of the soil. The Velvets appeared in the Cleveland, OH, area no less than 14 times between 1968 and 1971, and by 1973, Cleveland's Mirrors were playing the local high-school dance and saloon circuit, with a sound reminiscent of the Velvets, but also throwing in a dash of humor, some hard-rocking post-psychedelic grooves, a nod to the progressive strain current at the time, and even some avant-garde musical experimentation... (go to link for more)
by Uncle Dave Lewis
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