Having had 'Alone' in my head all day yesterday I think perhaps I was too hasty in my 45-years-in-the-making outburst on the Numbers the other day. Perhaps what I'm really annoyed about is that they didn't have a proper trajectory in the vein of the Undertones, for instance, who packed so much progress and development into a few short years. Or the Buzzcocks, though they changed less.
I suppose it's possible the Maybe Dolls fill this criteria (for people too bored by this to care to look it up, the Numbers was basically siblings Annalisse and Chris Morrow, and after the initial Numbers ended after two albums and some minor hit singles, they reconvened a decade later as the Maybe Dolls for another hit single and an album (actually they recorded two albums but the second one wasn't released).) (But if you were too bored by this to care to look it up, why have you read this far? Just silly).
OK I'm going to buy that UK Numbers album, what's money anyway, and I'm going to grab the Maybe Dolls album too, I'll get back to you.
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