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My 2006 recording of "Paper Dolls" by the band Screams (Champaign, IL) was a selection in my year-long series "12 Covers - 12 Months". I wrote about each month's offering for Faster Than the World blog. 12 years later, it's still linked here: http://fasterthantheworld.com/profile...

Here's what I wrote at the time:

"This cover of “Paper Dolls” is directly from my record collection. Screams was a Midwestern hard pop rock band from the Champaign, Illinois region, a very fertile musical breeding ground in the 1970s. I must’ve bought this LP when I was reading long-ago Chicago-area music mags like Triad, which exposed to me to a lot of underground music. Not that Screams was underground; they were very much in the Cheap Trick/Off Broadway mold of hard pop that I’ve enjoyed my whole life, and fashioned my early ’00s band Anthemic Pop Wonder around that sound.

The whole LP is good, but I was most fond of “Paper Dolls” and the way it takes off at the end. Nice chord change from major to minor in the verses, and a rollicking good vocal. Banging the drums on this recording was a blast.

After this song went up, Screams original singer (and songwriter) David Adams reached out to me and congratulated me on the effort – he liked the way I used ‘alright’ in the intro as a count-off."

Enjoy! I hope to put more songs up from that year's recordings!

Also, stay tuned for new original songs in Spring 2018!