Superconductor is one of the more poorly-remembered acts of the indie 90s, on account of its willful "obscurity" (travel within a cultural circuit too foreshortened to accomodate its more-or-less stated ambitions as the nine-piece of the *Heavy With Puppy* single) and unapologetic orientation towards the Canadian cultural matrix. *Hit Songs For Girls*, the first of two LPs, features even more aggressive figuration than the brutalism of "Bushpilot"; as Nomeansno listeners can anticipate, these songs are quite definitely not concerned with "treasured moments". Even if you have worse friends than the detritus of consumer culture, what one can "brew" from the lees and scum allowed the ordinary youth is really something "not worth having", i.e. aiming at creating a "notional" distance between exploiter and exploited as we know them from our occasionally none-too-carefully-scripted "personal" lives; this is a product not to expose the most durable suavity to.