Made Up in Blue - The Bats

Made Up in Blue - The Bats

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Made Up in Blue, 1986

Written by Robert Scott

The Bats were a forerunner (along with the Tall Dwarfs and Straitjacket Fits) of what came to be called the Dunedin sound, a genre that emerged from the city of Dunedin in New Zealand.  It's a jangly new wave-influenced pop with elements of surf rock and psychedelia.  R.E.M. would be a good example of American equivalent.  This is peak jangle-pop: bright, chiming guitars, a steady, unfussy rhythm section, and Robert Scott's cool, deadpan vocal floating just above the mix.  The abstruse lyrics are about some man whose antics the narrator is pretty much over, except not" "His second rate ravings don't thrill me / Even if they did some time before / Only his blue eyes still drill me / As I get to know my friend the floor."