The Individuals (New Jersey band)

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Individuals


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Years_active = 1978-1983
Genre = rock
Origin = Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Label = Infidelity
Lust/Unlust
Plexus
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The Bongos
Rage To Live
The Wygals
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Past_members = Glenn Morrow
Janet Wygal
Doug Wygal
Jon Light Klages
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The Individuals were a Hoboken, New Jersey-based band led by Glenn Morrow (guitar, vocals, sax, keyboards) and featuring Janet Wygal (bass, vocals, guitar, keyboards), Janet's brother Doug Wygal (drums, percussion), and Jon Light Klages (lead guitar, keyboards, vocals). The band played regularly at Maxwell's and were a central part of the early 1980s Hoboken music scene. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau called them "easily the best of En Why's Pop Three on stage [the other two being the Bongos and the dB's] , scruffy and forceful and lithe". ( [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=The+Individuals] }

Their debut EP, "Aquamarine", was produced by the dB's Gene Holder. It was voted one of the best EPs of 1981 in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll. ( [http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres81.php] ) The band's one album, "Fields", was also produced by Holder and engineered by Mitch Easter. While Christgau criticized their lyrics as "lack [ing] that universal touch" ( [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=The+Individuals] }, critic Robert Palmer, writing in the New York Times in May 1982, called "Fields" "remarkably mature" and "the most impressive rock debut so far this year."( [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFDC1F39F931A35756C0A964948260] ) "Fields" featured the minor college radio hit "Dancing With My Eighty Wives".

The Individuals broke up in 1983. Morrow then formed the band Rage To Live and later went on to help found Bar/None Records.

Both "Fields" and the "Aquamarine" EP were reissued, along with four other bonus tracks, on Bar/None Records on July 22, 2008.

Discography

* "Aquamarine E.P." (Infidelity Lust/Unlust 1981)
* "Fields" (Plexus 1982)