Audio Autopsy, 1994: Dodgy, "Staying Out for the Summer," "Good Enough"/A&M Records, UK
Formed in West London in 1990, these dynamic and melodic "indie" BritPoppers remain unknown in the States. Did their name repel US labels? A&M stateside?
“DODGY and the merry motley youths of the musical uprising.”-The Dodgy Album, 1993
The word, “dodgy,” at least in British slang, can be a synonym for “dangerous, bad or untrustworthy.” For example, “That guy looks a bit dodgy,” meaning he looks untrustworthy. As the Oxford Dictionary Online (US English) states (needlessly from an American perspective):
“T…
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