(Translated from my original Italian text by ChatGPT and Piero Scaruffi)
The Mirrors, led by Jamie Klimek and active since 1971, with the single Shirley/She Smiled (1977), belong to the first wave of Ohio new wave. The group featured the young Anton Fier on drums and the young Jim Jones on bass (future member of Electric Eels and Pere Ubu). From their ashes arose the Styrenes.
After their breakup, Chris Yarmock (vocals and saxophone) and Jim Jones (guitar) formed the Easter Monkeys. Their 1983 recordings were later collected on Splendor Of Sorrow (Hit & Run, 1991), and their Cramps-ian classics (that is, horrific but comically horrific) My Baby Digs Graves and Take Another Pill were complemented by extended jams such as Nailed To The Cross.
A line-up comprising Paul Marotta recorded Another Nail In The Remodeled Coffin.
Hands In My Pockets (Overground, 2001) collects 19 unreleased tracks.
Something That Would Never Do (Violet, 2009) is a career retrospective.
