Strange Criteria

I was reading about the Clique the other day.  You may not know the Clique - they were an also-ran pop group in the late sixties, a time when even first rate pop bands (the Zombies) could sink with little trace.  Their biggest hit was pretty minor, a cover of the Tommy James and the Shondells song "Sugar on Sunday."  It's not bad, and spent some time on the billboard chart.  No one would care about them today, except that the B-side to "Sugar on Sunday" was an original by the band, a jangly pop song called "Superman" which was turned into a classic by REM twenty years later.

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