Style
The band's style was highly eclectic, feeding off the creative cross-pollination of each member's distinct musical style, and was marked by a willingness to experiment with just about any musical idea. Tielli's material tended toward progressive rock, Bidini brought quirky humour and New Wave influences, Vesely pursued a relatively mainstream pop-rock orientation which meant that his songs garnered nearly all of the band's radio airplay, and Clark's songs were punk-flavoured.
While this eclecticism appealed to the band's fans, it also made them difficult for a major label to market – some of their later albums, especially Introducing Happiness, were described by critics as playing more like compilation albums than the work of a single band with a coherent and unified vision. As Bobby Baker of The Tragically Hip remarked in 1997, "I think maybe they're a little too good for their own good."
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