Fabulous – ‘Get Fucked by Fabulous’ [Album Review]

Fabulous are a riveting case study of how acting punk isn’t terribly sustainable, and, unless someone died in the bargain, no one’s really going to care. This is particularly true when you regard the simultaneously-occurring dual timelines at the time between the punk rock revival and grunge movements in the early ’90s. Fabulous represented the former, while we are well aware of the acts of the latter. While both were rooted in the same ethos, they took utterly different routes towards success. Fabulous is a case of a band burning bright and then just as quickly diving into obscurity. Of course, their appearance and behaviour infamously wasn’t, and was, what ultimately resulted in their subsequent implosion. So, Get Fucked by Fabulous, is an archeology exercise, really. A fashionable, comp...

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