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* Lewis, Jeff (November 16, 1981). "Television major influence on Doug and the Slugs album". The Brandon Sun. p. 23. Retrieved June 19, 2024 – via NewspaperArchive.com.(subscription required) | https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ca/manitoba/brandon/brandon-sun/1981/11-16/page-23 It was early 1980. I remember sitting with the transistor radio listening through the news, weather and sports, waiting for this song I just couldn't get out of my head. The chanting chorus and simple guitar lick made this catchy little ditty a break from the formulated monotony that commanded AM playlists. ... As a self-produced, self-distributed single, "Too Bad" didn't do too badly. It didn't top the charts, but it landed the 'Slugs' a record contract with RCA. |
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* Michael (September 12, 1980). "Album appealingly different". The Brandon Sun. p. 46. Retrieved June 19, 2024 – via NewspaperArchive.com.(subscription required) | https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ca/manitoba/brandon/brandon-sun/1980/09-12/page-46 throwback to late '50s–early '60s rock ... is made even more appealing by the presence of a bona fide b-b-b-[bass man]. |
* "Juno Nominees". The Brandon Sun. January 9, 1981. p. 13. Retrieved June 20, 2024 – via NewspaperArchive.com.(subscription required) | https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ca/manitoba/brandon/brandon-sun/1981/01-09/page-13 Composer of the year—Doug Bennett, "Too Bad", "The Move"; Single of the Year—Doug and the Slugs, "Too Bad", "The Move" |
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https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ca/alberta/lethbridge/lethbridge-herald/1985/05-17/page-11 5 self-directed videos |
* Cory, Frain (December 17, 1985). "Pointless preambles mar novelty act's praiseworthy music". Winnipeg Free Press. p. 35. Retrieved June 20, 2024 – via NewspaperArchive.com.(subscription required) | https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ca/manitoba/winnipeg/winnipeg-free-press/1985/12-17/page-43 "Too Bad" and "Chinatown Calculation": purposefully looney lyrics ... praiseworthy pieces of music |
* "Slugs (and Doug) head toward the Hat". Medicine Hat News. July 6, 1985. p. C4. Retrieved June 20, 2024 – via NewspaperArchive.com.(subscription required) | https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ca/alberta/medicine-hat/medicine-hat-news/1985/07-06/page-24 "background in commercial advertising to good use" to direct five videos ... "The Listening Party is a 27 minute video intended as an atypical treatment of basic album offerings"; also directed videos by Headpins, Trooper, Images in Vogue |
* Chamberlain, Adrian (March 10, 2001). "Doug still slugs it out 20 years after day in sun". Times Colonist. Retrieved June 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.(subscription required) | https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/509192144/?match=1&terms=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22 Norm MacDonald a fan of "Too Bad"; "bouncy tune with a nursery-rhyme-like refrain"; "nothing more than a cult phenomenon in the U.S." |
* Cooney, Roman (September 29, 1980). "Slugs slip past labels on way to top". Calgary Herald. p. D10). Retrieved June 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.(subscription required) | https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/482720634/?match=1&terms=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22 Too Bad: Bennett had the crowd in the palm of his hand. Literally everybody was moving in some way or another—tapping their foot, nodding their head, swaying back and forth; "Too Bad went on to sell nearly 50,000 copies, we're told" |
* "B.C. loves Loverboy, Blues". The Abbotsford News – via Newspapers.com.(subscription required) | https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/536595612/?match=1&terms=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22 West Coast Music Awards: D & the S won Best Graphics and Best Independent Release; also nominated for Best Group, Best Single, Best Male Vocalist, Best Rock Band, Best Songwriter |
* "Doug and the Slugs is hard to label but Vancouver band is on the move". Regina Leader-Post. January 5, 1981. p. 16. Retrieved June 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.(subscription required) | https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/495990241/?match=1&terms=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22 "The song Too Bad zoomed across Canadian record charts and RCA Records signed the band to its stable of musicians in August" |
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