The Vault: A Lively Band Called My Dad Is Dead

Brian Raftery | May 10, 2007 4:25 am
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Years ago, while at a “record fair” (look it up), one of your Idolators spotted a copy of My Dad Is Dead’s The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get with a hand-drawn price tag that read “$10 NEW (and the best album of 1989).” As it turns out, the CD was used–and the best album of that year remains 3 Feet High And Rising–but Taller is nonetheless a great collection of dark, twisting guitar-rock from one-man-band Mark Edwards. If you’ve only got time/room for one track, go with the paranoid “Too Far Gone,” which was canonized in K-Tel’s infamous Gimme Indie Rock compilation:

My Dad Is Dead – For Lack Of A Better Word [MP3, link expired] My Dad Is Dead – Too Far Gone [MP3, link expired] My Dad Is Dead – Seven Years [MP3, link expired] My Dad Is Dead [Blog]

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