Done pondering? The motherlode! "Superstar" is pretty much the most important of all Pooh Sticks touchstones, despite the song itself appearing to be wildly underwritten. Yes, sometime between the shriek’n’squeal excitement of “Orgasm” and the first-falterings of would-be West Coast FM-ness and rock’n’roll heaven romanticism of (bits of) “Formula One Generation”, this sad, sad tale of an everyday lovelorn groupie flashed before the eyes of our Great Creator (I called him that once; he didn’t miss a beat…) and apparently seemed to sum up everything about The Pooh Sticks relationship with pop: its DNA double-helix’d around the velvet rims (I get paid by the word here... can you tell?) of loads of our stuff. It’s also clearly the be-all-and-end-all of that International Language “Where The Bands Are” album that Steve and guitar-slinger Michel put out after “Optimistic Fool”, if you know that one. Basically: moth/flame, right? Anyway, it’s a set-up that’s doomed but immaculate, like Karen herself. I could’ve been her friend. We could’ve hung out.
"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album.
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