Things

One of the more obscure bands of the Southern California paisley underground scene in the mid-'80s, The Things fell prey to the fundamental shortcoming of the movement -their style was wholly derivative, and their material not nearly as good as their '60s heroes. Certainly songwriter / singer / guitarist Steve Crabtree's chief musical inspiration was Arthur Lee, and the trio's 1984 debut, 'Coloured Heaven', was populated with innocuous folk-rock songs that, though well-intentioned, were not fit to be Love/Arthur Lee rejects. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]