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The Souther Hillman Furay Band : Trouble I.Vibratore Bizarro : Sex Hundred and Sext.VA - Objectivity The Object Singles Album.Although it produced three more Top 40 singles and got the band a bigger overseas audience, the album proved to be their worst seller to date, possibly because the Manchester scene's moment was perceived to have passed. Inspiral Carpets scored their biggest chart hit in the spring of 1992 with "Dragging Me Down," which appeared on their third album, Revenge of the Goldfish, released later that fall.
Inspiral Carpets scored their biggest chart hit in the spring of 1992 with "Dragging Me Down,"
Their first single for Mute, "This Is How It Feels," hit the British Top 20 and landed them a TV appearance on Top of the Pops the follow-up, "She Comes in the Fall," reached the Top 30. Inspiral Carpets' debut album, Life, was released in the spring of 1990. The first release on Cow was the 1989 EP Trainsurfing, which got the band even more national attention.
Their first national release came in 1988 with the Plane Crash EP on Playtime Records, but when that label's distributor went out of business later that year, the band set up their own imprint, Cow Records, which was financed mostly by T-shirt sales. They sold T-shirts featuring their smoking-cow logo and their slogan "Cool as Fuck," which got them media attention when a student wearing the shirt was arrested for violating obscenity laws. They did, however, share a fascination with trippy psychedelia, particularly the Farfisa organ-drenched sound of Nuggets-style garage rock from the '60s, which set them apart from their peers After the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets were arguably the third most popular band to emerge from the late-'80s/early-'90s Madchester scene.