This Is My Drug Hell by My Drug Hell

This Is My Drug Hell, the first studio album by the British band My Drug Hell, came out in 1996, and it very nearly didn't. They'd cut it at Toe Rag, the all-analogue London studio the White Stripes would later make famous with Elephant, and then everything went wrong: a faulty tape machine ate half the original mixes, and their UK label went bankrupt two weeks before the album was due out.

What survived is warm, wistful guitar pop with a lo-fi glow. Four UK singles came off it, "2am", "You Were Right, I Was Wrong", "Maybe We Could Fly" and "Girl at the Bus Stop", and that last one took off in America, topping request lists wherever it was played, including a ten-week run at WHTG in New Jersey. It also won a Best Video vote on MTV's Alternative Nation and landed in a Miller Beer ad and two films, while the album spent 3 months on the US college radio charts.

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