And we began with Morrissey. We. I played it. It's called Swadehead. It's got Vinnie Riley playing guitar on it. And I think it's going to take an awful lot of requests and probably a couple of well-written, passionate letters to get me to give that one any airplay.

So it's March. 1988.

Morrissey has come back from the breakup of the Smiths with his new single, Swadehead.

It's a big deal.

The Smiths were so immensely popular at that time.

It's hard to imagine an artist with more cultural capital.

But that mattered not to Dirdre O'Donohue.

I just don't buy the Morrissey's schick.

Musically, I mean, Vinnie's fine and Johnny Mar's fine,

but it's not as though there's an enormous depth of musical intrigue going on in either Smith's songs or this new one from Morrissey.

So there you go. I played it for you.

Make of it what you will. Instead, Ditter was

far more enthusiastic about the new record from an under-the-radar band she'd been supporting for a long

time, the mighty lemon drops. They were getting popular in their native England, but not so much in America yet.

That was all about to change in the spring of 1988 when they blew open the States with their new single, Inside Out.

You can't stop my heart daunting, inside out. Inside Out To try to stuff my world got to turn

Inside Out

Inside Out became an instant college rock anthem

Within months, the band was touring amphitheaters with Love and Rockets.

The song's video got them into rotation on MTV,

and in the midst of all that crazy success, the Mighty Lemon Drops returned to SNAP.

We played at Universal Amphitheater, which is like lot, five and a half, six thousand people or something.

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