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| * Kennedy, Rudyard. "Slugcology 101: Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 11, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024. | |
| * Kennedy, Rudyard. "Ten Big Ones: Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2024. | |
| * Kirkeby, Marc (May 14, 1981). "Doug and the Slugs' Sneaky Hit Single". Rolling Stone. No. 343. pp. 54–55. | |
| * Mason, Stewart. "Cognac and Bologna: Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2024. | |
| * Mason, Stewart. "Too Bad: Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 7, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024. | |
| * "Oh What a Feeling, Vol. 2: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music—Various Artists". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2024. | |
| * "Hitline" (in Dutch). Dutch Charts. Archived from the original on March 10, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2024. | |
| * "RCA Signing". Billboard. September 6, 1980. p. 67. Retrieved June 24, 2024. | |
| * Harrison, Tom (December 15, 1979). "Talent Industry Revels in Rock Resurgence". Billboard. p. 25. Retrieved June 24, 2024. | |
| * LeBlanc, Larry (October 13, 2001). "Double U.S. Success for Vancouver's A & F". Billboard. p. 53. Retrieved June 24, 2024. | |
| * Kisiel, Ralph (May 4, 1983). "Doug and the Slugs Offer Diverse, Infectious Sound". The Blade. p. P-2. Retrieved June 19, 2024. | a simple chorus that entices the listener to hum along |
| * Ferguson, Derk (February 26, 1983). "Slugs tailor antics to mood of audience". The StarPhoenix. p. C16. Retrieved June 24, 2024. | catchy, jumpy |
| * "Doug and the Slugs Not Thinner, But Their Music's Less Flabby". | |
| https://books.google.ca/books?id=aI9VAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA50&dq=%22Doug+and+the+Slugs%22+%22Too+Bad%22&article_id=1086,306731&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja6OTnku6GAxXSADQIHU1PA5EQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22&f=false novelty single Although they're good musicians, the Slugs refuse to take any music too seriously—especially their own. This all too-rare ability was seen in their performance of the band's tour de force, Too Bad, which was set to a vocal accompaniment of duck-like quacks and squawks. Backstage, two band members, John Burton and keyboardist Simon Kendall, explained the story behind their top-selling Canadian single. According to Kendal, the band recorded Too Bad in a basement and hoped to distribute about 5,000 copies to friends and relatives. Instead, some DJs heard it, liked it and played it first in B.C. then throughout most of the country. Too Bad became a smash hit and vaulted the Slugs from regional cult status to national popularity. "Too Bad was a very pleasant surprise," said Kendall, in what has to be the understatement of the year. But the Slugs' success wasn't overnight. Burton, Bennett and drummer John Wally Watson were part of the original Slugs, while Kendall, Baker and bassist Steve Bosley have played with them for about two years. "We built up our following and our popular ity in B.C., partly because of our stage routine, which included some hysteria and mania too." The band attracted people because of its crazy stunts—mostly the work of Bennett—but kept them because of the music. Although RCA Records signed them to a recording contract, they still maintain artistic control through the company they formed to release Too Bad. | |
| https://books.google.ca/books?id=hwplAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA89&dq=%22Doug+and+the+Slugs%22+%22Too+Bad%22&article_id=4388,5023485&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja6OTnku6GAxXSADQIHU1PA5EQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22&f=false The Listening Party | |
| https://books.google.ca/books?id=HfFfAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA24&dq=%22Doug+and+the+Slugs%22+%22Too+Bad%22&article_id=1020,123187&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja6OTnku6GAxXSADQIHU1PA5EQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22&f=false | |
| * Cosley, Gerard (April 12, 1983). "Doug and the Slugs: Music for the Hard of Thinking". Boston Phoenix. p. 8. Retrieved July 13, 2024. | https://books.google.ca/books?id=630hAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA67&dq=%22Doug+and+the+Slugs%22+%22Too+Bad%22&article_id=2736,7953458&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja6OTnku6GAxXSADQIHU1PA5EQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22&f=false In 1980 Doug and the Slugs slew their cult fans in Vancouver with "Too Bad," a three-minute novelty fusing a ska rhythm, doo-wop backing vocals and dumb-but-infectious lyrics about the comeuppance of a two-timing woman. This homegrown single sold so well that RCA Canada bought the master and inked these six crazed Canucks to a long-term contract. |
| https://books.google.ca/books?id=H4lVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA43&dq=%22Doug+and+the+Slugs%22+%22Too+Bad%22&article_id=1852,4448916&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja6OTnku6GAxXSADQIHU1PA5EQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22&f=false novelty single | |
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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]. |
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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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| * Edwards, Randall (April 2, 1981). "Music for raucous get-togethers". The Daily Utah Chronicle. p. 8. Retrieved August 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.(subscription required) | https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/430016972/?match=1&terms=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22 Blending pop with jazz and boogie-woogie, Doug Bennett and his infamous Slugs had a hit in native Canada with "Too Bad," included in this first album by RCA, but produced and distributed originally as an independent project by the Slugs. And the incredibly catchy combination of meaningless lyrics, boogie rhythms and general good-time party music is a phenomenon that should catch on in America as well, with any kind of marketing or radio play, because Doug and the Slugs are just so darn musically likeable. |
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https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/99434348/?match=1&terms=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22 1987 interview in Detroit Free Press that doesn't mention TB but has background that may or may not be useful |
| * Muretich, James (March 9, 1980). "A Tongue-in-cheek music style". Calgary Albertan. p. 37. Retrieved August 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.(subscription required) | https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/729964940/?match=1&terms=%22Doug%20and%20the%20Slugs%22%20%22Too%20Bad%22 VANCOUVER - The springs beneath the dance floor at the Commodore (Vancouver's answer to the old Fillmore in San Francis co, home of acid rock) are bouncing madly as nearly 1,000 people of assorted shapes and sizes bop up and down. Rooted to the spot in front of the stage, people in the crowd are singing along with the band. Amazingly, these songs have never been recorded. The crowd knows them simply because, like so many others in Vancouver, they've seen this group time and time again. It's another Doug and the Slugs concert. The band happens to be the hottest thing to hit this city since umbrellas. The group has been elevated to the level of near divinity by its fans. and its 31-year-old lead singer, Doug Bennett, is in all his chunkiness - a sex symbol. "The women like him because he's like Father Knows Best. It's their TV hero come back," said the band's keyboard player, Simon Kendall. Doug and the Slugs enjoy a phenomenal cult following in this city. In the space of nine days during December, the band played before an incredible 6,000 people. And the group hasn't been signed by a major label yet, putting out its first single by itself! However, like the band, the single is a hot item in Vancouver and is getting attention across the country. Too Bad is even being played on CKXL, not exactly a breeding ground for unsigned talent. / The band's sound, as anyone who's caught the single on the radio will attest, is danceable, catchy, easy-on-the-ear and boogie good-times music all to boot. |
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