Urge Overkill revival. It's time.

In the early '90s, in Vancouver, a friend dragged me to a show by a band from Chicago called Urge Overkill . Good show, good band, nothing earth shattering. Then a couple years later he sat me down and put on a record called Saturation . We played that thing into the ground. This was a record that was simply not of the times. Urge Overkill didn't look or sound the same as anyone else. They were inspirational. And they rocked hard.

Now, if you remember Urge Overkill you may be one of those people who had a problem with their image: they rode around in a convertible wearing smoking jackets and drinking martinis. They lived in an old bank with their massive record collection. It rubbed some people the wrong way. But not me. I had seen enough flannel for one lifetime.

The most important thing is this: the songs stood up and they still do today. Pretty much everything on Saturation is a knockout. Supersonic Storybook before it was top notch. Their swan song, the dark, stripped down Exit the Dragon ? We didn't like it at the time, none of us. But guess what? I threw it on the other day and it had aged, to me, like fine wine. Check out "The Break" and "Jaywalking." It's time for an Urge revival.