This side of the pond, the Smiths made a minor ripple, but in Old Blighty, they influenced a lot of bands, including the Sundays. Like the Smiths, the lyrics hint at cynicism veiled in humor, and the chiming guitar style of Johnny Marr gets a wink and a nod in the Sundays. Harriet Wheeler's voice is school-girl clever, and when I listen to the Sundays, I feel like it's fall and I'm headed off to campus -- even though they came along long after I'd graduated. But there's such of sense of fresh possibilities, it's like the sound of opportunity. "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" is probably their best, but the others grow on you, and the version of "Wild Horses" on "Blind" beats the Stones for me.
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