i remember getting my first Teenbeat order (done by fax - those were the days), while at my relatives' home in Aylmer, Ontario. i was seventeen years old, first time in north america, absolutely everything during that stay unique and unforgettable, read: e v e r y t h i n g.
so i opened the heavy overstamped cardboard, found the rad Air Miami & Tuscadero t-shirts - that are still in service -, awesome stickers (VSNY, you know), a couple LPs and 7inches, and the gorgeous The Stars Are Insane CD, Versus' first album.
and, that's why this is being told here, an overenthusiastic letter written by the mailorder-guy, saying how much he was in love with Versus, that he was listening to the Dead Leaves comp and the Secret Swingers lp 24hours a day, and so on. this was (or at least seemed to me - but seriously, who cares about that difference?) honest, sincere stuff, not the 'we appreciate your business'-thing. and gave me the feeling of being, hm, part of a youth movement, to quote a german band i never was interested in, even though almost all my friends were. (you'll get some candies if you can tell me what i'm talking about.)
so, here comes Versus' contribution to the mémorable (yep, that's bloody québécois) Simple Machines Working Holidays split 7" project. no real surprise, they got the first series-release.
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