Lips Classic Number Two followed another lineup change — enter drummer/multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd and alien-voices guitarist Ronald Jones and a one-album-long deviation from the partnership with Fridmann: This one was recorded with producer Keith Cleversley at home in Oklahoma. It would, of course, yield the band's at-long-last MTV and modern-rock-radio hit: "She Don't Use Jelly," a ridiculous but joyful ditty about a girl who puts Vaseline on her toast, a guy who uses magazines to blow his nose and another girl who's always changing the color of her hair, punk-rock style. (Some contend that the three verses are a metaphor for the unholy trinity of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.) As with Priest, however, the brilliance of Transmissions is that it is a unique, beginning-to-end sonic journey, with Ronald's otherworldly guitar noises and Steven's monstrous drumming and unerring ear for hooks bringing whole new dimensions to tunes such as "Pilot Can at the Queer of God," "Superhumans," "Be My Head," "Chewin the Apple of Yer Eye" (Wayne and Steven's first effective songwriting collaboration), and the hillbilly cover song listed in the credits as "* * * * * * *" but better known as "Plastic Jesus," a tune from… read more »