

only half bad
If we could time travel back to Dayton, Ohio 1987, we’d see The Pleasures Pale reaching a creative peak. After drummer Jeff Keating left the band in late '86, his replacement Tim Payton Earick stepped in with a mod-fueled attack and propelled the band toward a fuller, more forceful, kinetic sound. With momentum building after the release of The Pleasures Pale! LP early in the year (on Cincinnati’s Heresy Records label), and with an eye toward expanding arrangements for a foll