100 Years of Pulchritude

• Artist: 100 Flowers
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• Release Date: 1990
• Type: Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Rock

Review

Whoever persuaded Rhino to reissue the long-lost 100 Flowers album deserves high praise; but whoever persuaded them to add the subsequent Drawing Fire EP, plus tons of contemporaneous and hitherto-unreleased material, merits sainthood. Collecting everything the band did in one easy package, Pulchritude is a little over an hour's worth of proof as to why 100 Flowers may be the greatest lost band from L.A.'s early-'80s rock scene -- less revivalist than many of its contemporaries and never willing to take an easy way out. Of the seven rare or unreleased tracks collected here, the standouts are "Dyslexia," a quick blast of electronically enhanced energy, and the snarling "Reject Yourself," the band's first song after transmogrifying from existence as the Urinals. ~ Ned Raggett, Rovi

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