Very, Very Powerful Motor Explained

Very, Very Powerful Motor
Type:	Album
Artist:	Fastbacks
Cover:	Very, Very Powerful Motor.jpg
Released:	1990
Genre:	Punk rock, indie rock
Length:	33:02
Label:	PopLlama Records
Prev Title:	And His Orchestra
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Zücker
Next Year:	1993

Very, Very Powerful Motor is the second studio album by the Fastbacks, released in 1990 on PopLlama Records.^[1]

The second track, "Apologies," is a cover of a Pointed Sticks song.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "gives Bloch’s pop-rooted songs rocking arrangements that occasionally overwhelm them."^[1] Greil Marcus, in Artforum, called it "unreconstructed punk with a lot of melody, no apologies ... and Kim Warnick, for whom singing flat is just a form a realism."^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Kurt Bloch, except where noted.

1. "In the Summer" – 3:23
2. "Apologies" (Nick Jones) – 1:50
3. "Trouble Sleeping" – 3:18
4. "Better Than Before" – 3:25
5. "What to Expect/Dirk's Car Jam" – 5:02
6. "Says Who?" – 4:12
7. "Last Night I Had a Dream That I Could Fly" – 5:13
8. "I Won't Regret" – 3:25
9. "I Guess" – 2:41
10. "Always Tomorrow" – 4:25
11. "I'll Be Okay" – 5:00
12. "Everything I Don't Need" – 3:22

Personnel

• Kim Warnick – vocals, bass
• Kurt Bloch – guitar
• Lulu Gargiulo – guitar
• Nate Johnson – drums

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fastbacks . Trouser Press . 2 August 2020.
2. Book: Marcus, Greil. Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014. October 20, 2015. Yale University Press. 9780300218596. Google Books.