SIC – Cover Girls Smile / Between

SIC – Cover Girls Smile // Between (Not on Label) 1983. One of those weird minimal synth obscurities that one comes across when one is a total music-collecting dork such as me’self. There is absolutely no information on the interwebs about SIC so anything that I say here will be pure conjecture and inadmissible in a court of law. So what is there to say? Well first of all, SIC was clearly popular enough (or being groomed for popularity enough by a label) to make a video for the A Side of this single. Upon looking at the video, I became convinced of a few things. First of all, SIC were Europeans. There is no way this is an American band. If I had to take a wild stab at it, I would say Germans. Second, SIC were hippies. This one caught me off guard. I had the B Side of this single on my iPod for months and was convinced that SIC were a bunch of brooding Factory Label type hipsters. Boy was I wrong. Third, go take a look at their video for this song (on the you tubes). Video Killed the Radio Star. That ain’t no lie. It’s probably why this band never broke. Finally, the B-Side of the single is a great little synth punk track. The A-Side is good too but Between is where my money is. These are the conclusions of my research and I am sticking to them.