The Make-Up – You + Me vs The World (Live Video)

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The Make-Up – You + Me vs The World
Mississippi Nights
St. Louis, MO
10/8/95

After this week’s earlier Nation Of Ulysses post we got a few requests for more Ian Svenonius. Post-Cupid Car Club, The Make-Up never thrilled me quite like his early bands, but you can’t deny that it inspired a league of interesting copy-cats. Here’s a video from one of The Make-Up‘s early tours supporting their 7″s released on their own Black Gemini Records.

Download: The Make-Up – You + Me vs The World (Live Video)

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Dorky Dork says:

July 8, 2010 at 3:37 pm

Examples of these interesting copy-cats?

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