For me it's always the little bands who influence the most and even though the Dylans only created 2 albums they influnced and shaped the way i created music.
Formed in Sheffield in the late 80s the were signed to Beggars banquet records they released 4 singles from their self titled debut album. With styles ranging from jangle guitars to the sounds that were being used in the Baggy scene of the time. I remember going on a record hunt around Oxford and finding a small record shop that was hidden off the high street. With most baggy album singles and albums of the time the titles somehow always had meanings of Love, floating, and fruit references !!! ........... so this is what i was looking for.
So in section D i stumbled across The Dylans with the single "Lemon afternoon"........ this had to be baggy didn't it?.
well yes actually it was with its big baggy beats and floaty Voices with spangle guitars all swirling above my head, i could just Imagen the lead singer with his bowl haircut. So i picked everything up i could that they had and toodled off home to play my latest purchases. So i found myself with the 1st 4 singles and the debut album and i seem to remember playing them on rotation for hours especially the song love vibration.
After several line up changes they released 2 more singles "Grudge" and "Ill be back to haunt you" and with a big interest in America it looked like they were set. But after the 2nd album "Spirit finger" didn't do so well they split up in 1994.
In my opinion after listening to Spirit finger again (Which is a bloody fantastic album) it seems to me that if they had been marketed right with the upcoming Britpop scene they could have been massive. But alas as with so many indie bands it was never meant to be and they just faded away.
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