Mark Palmer (vocals) says, "The Stuff was written in less than an hour from several dreams that I had the night before.
"I met you in a church at midnight, starring in a porno flick. A gang of nuns they broke the door down and cast me as a gay Old Nick", is just too strange to have come from a conscious mind - even mine."
The Hitmen were no-hit wonders; they were obscure in 1990 and totally forgotten by 2010. None of that dilutes the magnificence of SMASHFACE. Its brilliance lies in its artful precision as well as its raw eclecticism. This is the evidence and you are the witnesses: The Hitmen had their shining moment and made their one great record.