At 07:47 PM 3/30/2004 -0800, ronald and karen sanchez wrote: >Flop!!- Those first two albums are two of the greatest records ever made. A >local producer dude brought over some crappy band's cd he'd recorded to play >for me the other day. After about two songs, I told him they reminded me of >someone... I flipped on Whenever You're Ready. His face just dropped when he >realized how far off the mark he was. I discovered Flop through Rusty's connection with the Fastbacks (he was one of their many drummers, playing on ZUCKER, my fave of their albums and arguably the greatest pop-punk album of all time), and never got into them quite as much as I probably should, but "The Great Valediction" alone makes WHENEVER YOU'RE READY worth much more than the 99 cents you're going to pay for it in any remainder bin. S