I'm pretty sure this band's one performance was on a bill with Turbo Satan at the Hardback in late summer 1989. They were brilliant---I am probably making all this up, but their schtick was that they were "the punks that time forgot"--a bunch of englishmen from the first wave of punk who somehow missed a few decades and ended up in Gville. Their theme song chorus went: "We're the punks that time forgot/Get ready for our snot/We thought that it was '78/But we found out it's not!" Another Inhalents hit was "Impulse Shopper." Also for some reason--perhaps explained within the conceptual schtick or perhaps a gratuitous absurdity--they were all acoustic. Someone please tell me I'm remember all this wrong making it all up.

brian, your recollections are correct. more so than tom's, even (he recently and incorrectly insisted to me that it was chris robertson and not hanrahan in the group). the acoustic part was both conceptual and absurd (we said our instruments had been stolen while we were cryogenically frozen.) my personal favorite song was 'burn your flag': burn your flag!/see if i care!/but don't get the flame/too close to my hair/america's a colony!/so all of you bow down to me/give me fire/i'll burn some money/then i'll laugh, ha ha ha!/'cause i think it's funny! another hit: 'three horror lo mein,' a misfits-like song w/whoah-oah choruses about awful chinese food inspired by a racist national lampoon article from the late '70s: first horror is/twice chewed beef/second horror is/lungs in sauce/third horror is/cheese chow mein/fourth horror is/there's no fourth horror! another note: i believe we played out three times, but the show you're referring to is personally memorable because it occured right after some hippie poetry reading. drunk and 'in character,' i verbally (and almost physically) attacked the hippies after we took the stage, driving out 35 of the 40 people in attendance.

How typically self-indulgent. You guys are morons, and probably virgins, too.