Very, Very Powerful Motor


Very, Very Powerful Motor is the second studio album by the Fastbacks, released in 1990 on PopLlama Records.
The second track, "Apologies," is a cover of a Pointed Sticks song.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "gives Bloch’s pop-rooted songs rocking arrangements that occasionally overwhelm them." Greil Marcus, in Artforum, called it "unreconstructed punk with a lot of melody, no apologies... and Kim Warnick, for whom singing flat is just a form a realism."

Track listing

All songs written by Kurt Bloch, except where noted.
  1. "In the Summer" – 3:23
  2. "Apologies" – 1:50
  3. "Trouble Sleeping" – 3:18
  4. "Better Than Before" – 3:25
  5. "What to Expect/Dirk's Car Jam" – 5:02
  6. "Says Who?" – 4:12
  7. "Last Night I Had a Dream That I Could Fly" – 5:13
  8. "I Won't Regret" – 3:25
  9. "I Guess" – 2:41
  10. "Always Tomorrow" – 4:25
  11. "I'll Be Okay" – 5:00
  12. "Everything I Don't Need" – 3:22

Personnel