Winnipeg's New Meanies were always at their hard-scrabbling, jamming, neo-hippy best when they were an independent band, prior to signing a major label deal with Virgin Music Canada.
Sure, Virgin paid big bucks for the recording and marketing of the group's 1998 Three Seeds album -- but the end result, while yielding some tremendous new songs, was just a little too high-gloss for most Meanies fans.
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