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. "In the Summer" – 3:23 "Apologies" (Nick Jones) – 1:50 "Trouble Sleeping" – 3:18 "Better Than Before" – 3:25 "What to Expect/Dirk's Car Jam" – 5:02 "Says Who?" – 4:12 "Last Night I Had a Dream That I Could Fly" – 5:13 "I Won't Regret" – 3:25 "I Guess" – 2:41 "Always Tomorrow" – 4:25 "I'll Be Okay" – 5:00 "Everything I Don't Need" – 3:22

Personnel Kim Warnick – vocals, bass Kurt Bloch – guitar Lulu Gargiulo – guitar Nate Johnson – drums

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