Back in 1979, The Cure had released an accusatory standalone single called 'Jumping Someone Else's Train' – which actually wasn't that good and turned out to be a bit rich considering how they themselves glommed onto New Order for a while soon after.Īnd, of course, back in the 1960s there were tons of wannabe Beatles and Stones-alikes. 'Where did they come from? Why did they bother? Couldn't they tell they were sh*t?' Not that trying to con the public your mediocrity amounted to anything but a lame tribute to a greater talent was a particularly new phenomenon. 'All these bands!' critic Simon Reynolds ranted in The Guardian in 2010. We're talking Razorlite and Miles Kane and Starsailor and Ordinary Boys and Bombay Bicycle Club and Paddingtons and Pigeon Detectives and Milburn and Two Door Cinema Club and Larrikin Love… Truth is, the list of 'not-a-patch-on's is endless and continues to grow. The Vaccines in 2017 (l-r): Yoann Intonti, Timothy Lanham, Justin Hayward-Young, Freddie Cowan, Árni Árnason We're talking The Kooks, who weren't Blur, and The View, who weren't even The Kooks. We're talking The Enemy, who ludicrously fancied themselves as The Jam reborn. We're talking Gene, who way-too-desperately wanted to be The Smiths and missed their target by a Manchester mile. We're talking Northside who were runty patchwork impressions of Happy Mondays. We're talking Seahorses who, despite having John Squire in their lineup, weren't remotely The Stone Roses. We're talking Cast, who, despite having John Power in their number, weren't remotely The La's. In other words, they were among the legion of non-original no-hopers looking to imitate their betters and often elders en route to a credible career. To elucidate: they were one of those thousands of bands heaped on the steaming pile of what was rather cruelly described in the mid-'90s as Landfill Indie. Remember Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong? Of course you don't.
Get your Vaccines here on 180g black vinyl (sorry, we couldn't resist), as Steve Sutherland sets out the background story to this UK indie/rock debut album
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