I know It’s not exactly breaking news anymore, but I was pretty bummed out when I saw that Special Needs / The Needs are no more. Since they only released three singles, the panic isn’t exactly widespread, but it should be. But then again, why should we pay attention to a band that actually sounds a little different? Not when we could spend more time kissing the Editors’ ass, even though they totally ripped off Interpol.

Sorry, I got distracted. Anyway, The Needs (though I have to admit, I like Special Needs better) did this garage-meets-50s-pop thing, and it was fabulous. It sounds like they had some seriously good reasons to split up, though:

“[Guitarist Andrew] Pearson said: ‘There are so many reasons for this and this is only my version of why we have finished. There obviously were some problems within the band between members. This is not anything to do directly with why we have done this, and we will all be friends I’m sure. A dark collection of individuals stopped me wanting to do this, namely the fucking drugs wankers and stupid people who think they’re Nancy Spungen. And everything went rather grim since we got signed for whatever reason.’”
(quote from nme.com)

Well, I’m not sure exactly what that means, but it can’t possibly be good. I hope they’re all happier now. And I hope they all move on to bigger and even better musical endeavors.

However, I’m calling for The Needs’ album to be released anyway. We need a petition or something. It won’t do any harm to let us hear how great it is, will it? In the meantime, go check out The Needs’ possibly official site, scoop up the mp3s they’ve got over there, and make yourself a fake Needs CD.