2000 Great Songs #1408: Better Things
Another early single from The Minders , part of the stable of Elephant 6 -affiliated 90s indie pop bands. The flip-side of a 1997 small-pressing 7", later collected on 1998's excellent Cul-De-Sacs & Dead Ends compilation, "Better Things"--not to be confused with the Kinks track of the same name, covered here many moons ago--is short and sweet, a pretty basic lo-fi bubblegum pop tune that sounds like a cross between early XTC and a British Invasion hit. It's a tiny trifle of a tune, barely 90 seconds, yet so wonderfully hummable I found it immediately embedded in my brain for all time. Maybe it's the fact that the bridge riff sounds like the old White Hen Pantry jingle ? Or was that just a Chicago thing? See the entire Top 2000 to date in a sortable database !
