The Steppes
Drop Of The Creature (1987)
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Length:  47:34
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 A Play On Wordsworth    5:57
      2.  
      		 Somebody Waits    3:23
      3.  
      		 Holding Up Well    3:25
      4.  
      		 Sky Is Falling    5:08
      5.  
      		 Make Us Bleed    2:53
      6.  
      		 Cut In Two    2:22
      7.  
      		 See You Around    3:31
      8.  
      		 Lazy Ol You    4:02
      9.  
      		 Bigger Than Life    3:19
      10.  
      		 Black Forest Friday    1:28
      11.  
      		 More Than This    3:56
      12.  
      		 History Hates No Man    8:05
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      The Steppes - Drop Of The Creature [1987]

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      80s [+] [-]
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      psychedelic [+] [-]
      acidrock [+] [-]
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      Q Magazine Review

      As the paisley underground clan grabbed the American alt-rock headlines in the mid 80's, Irish-American quartet The Steppes (led by brothers John and David Fallon) made inroads with their heavier acid-rock fruggery. "We plug our guitars into Celtic crosses and don frocks of velvet green", as their rather risible sleevenotes put it, summed up their Edwardian-imaged lunacy and lyrical bent, but 1985's first proper album Drop Of The Creature had enough psychedelic urgency and lacy whimsy to pass muster. Holding Up Well and Make Me Bleed even stand up to the paisley swell of two decades earlier.

      In the mid 1980s, LA brothers John and David Fallon rediscovered their Irish roots and formed the Steppes, a bizarre hybrid of psychedelic 1960s beat music and mystical Celtic folk musings. Delerium's admirable reissue programme posits them as unsung Britpop forebears, stifled in their day by acid house and transatlantic air fares, but the Steppes deserve better than footnote status. Drop Of The Creature (1987) is one of the greatest debuts ever, the sound of the Byrds relocating to Dublin instead of Nashville
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