Craig Naylor
- Guitar & Vocals
Steve Gentle - Guitar & Vocals
Kelly Aldridge - Bass & Vocals
Warren Kent - Lead Guitar
Chris Fuller - Keyboards
David Gentle - Percussion
Cathy Fuller -Ex-Manager
- Muffin Music
Ain't Pretty
- Muffin Music Limited 1988
- Seeking Validation
- Muffin Music Limited 1989
- Bigger Than Huge
- Muffin Music Limited 1990
- Now Muffins Live
- Muffin Music Limited 1990
- The Best of the Now Muffins
- Muffin Music Limited 1992
BACK - Muffin Music Limited 1988
Muffin Music Ain't Pretty 1988
Oh my! what can be said about this early recording tragedy. This is the debut live recording of the first Now Muffin performance in a public place. By today's standards and for that matter any standards, this music is unbearable to listen to at times and at other times its not even possible. Its not rap, punk or even gothic death metal but it does have some of those same annoying and equally repulsive characteristics. The music, if you want to call that, lives up to the title "Muffin Music Ain't Pretty". To be honest there's not a complete song on the entire recording because they didn't know all of the lyrics. This is however where Muffin Music and Muffinmania has it's roots, the very foundation of what would ultimately become a website...who knew?
It was time to get serious, the muffin fans were growing and it was time for the band to step up and give them some real music. Then came the next recording this one, "Seeking Validation". That's exactly what the Muffins needed "Validation". Were they the giants of music that they pretended to be or not? This recording will always speak to the question and the listener ultimatley discovers that answer. This band had not a single rehearsal before going into the studio to produce and record all 23 songs in a single day and they still had time to throw away all of the furnitue and carpet in the recording studio that was trashed during the session. Although there are actual references in the Muffin Movie to this album being voted as the number one album of the 80's by Rolling Stone Magazine, that's not entirely true even though we saw that magazine in the film some say it was just another prop, others will always disagree.
This is an actual recording taken directly off the sound board at the final live performance of the Now Muffins. This is history, this is the night that Lola died. Most people collect this album because of the version of the song Bigger than huge appears at the end of the recording. Some say that this version was the way it was suppose to have been done others say it doesn't matter, we never got to hear the end.
Bigger than Huge 1990
This recording would become the first piece of legitimate work created by the band up to this point. All of these songs were written and recorded by the band members. Some of the songs like Muffintoon, Bigger than huge and Did Jamaica? are fundamentally "Muffin Music". Other songs like "She said she" and "Shadow girl" present the listening audience with a softer and yet more robust listening nugget. This would be the single album to add to the collection if you were only allowed only one as your choice.
What would a descent group with more than one recording do if they became lazy or all of there resources were exhausted? The answer to that age old question is no different for the Muffins. Release a new album with absolutley no new material or effort and call it "the best of album". Now doesn't that make you want to run out and get this one. Basically this one is for all of those "late" muffinfans that want to chase the legends and the lore surrounding this group.