House of GVSB by Girls Against Boys

House of GVSB, the fourth Girls Against Boys album, came out on Touch and Go in 1996, cut the previous September at Water Music in Hoboken, New Jersey. The band started in Washington, D.C. and bolted for New York City almost right away, and the lineup is the one on every record they made: Scott McCloud on vocals and guitar, Eli Janney on keyboards and bass, Johnny Temple on bass and Alexis Fleisig on drums.

Two basses is the whole dirty secret. The low end throbs and prowls, Fleisig pounds, samples flicker around the edges, and McCloud growls over it like a guy leaning a little too close at the bar. AllMusic heard the band keeping its hot streak alive after Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby and Cruise Yourself, and it became their best seller, with more than 70,000 copies gone worldwide by May 1998. "Super-Fire" is the track that caught rock radio's ear.

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