Haffner deals with teenage boys living on the margin, specifically a band of eight lost souls led by a 21-year-old named Jonny.
What if he had grown from an impetuous youth into a daredevil stuntman and settled into a middle-aged lifestyle as a small town drug dealer whose rag-tag band of lost boys had been reduced to a sad and directionless handful of young adults with no purpose in life other than to kick back, drop out, and get high?
In other words, the guys with green eye shades and really fancy calculators debunked the core belief of the Republican Party, and Sen. Mitch McConnell and his band of lost boys jammed their fingers into their ears while loudly protesting their belief in fairies.
Favorite example of a band that lost its lead singer and main songwriter SEVERAL TIMES OVER, kept going, and eventually got better and more popular: Fleetwood Mac.
But if the overall impression is of a band so lost in sound they forgot to write songs, you have to admit the sound is pretty fascinating: the way the vocals shift unexpectedly in volume and clarity, the restless guitars that underpin Morning Mr Magpie and add a sense of agitation to a song that appears to be about the banking crisis, the bass overload and scattered vocal samples of Feral.
Soon enough, a merry band of punk lost boys blows through, anticorporate raiders led by a reckless fellow with Rimbaud's poem "The Drunken Boat" tattooed on his arm in binary code.
I'll say this: if England do not beat Algeria tonight it will be their worst result in the World Cup since they lost to a band of American postmen in 1950.
When Simpkin, the tailor's bad-tempered cat, hides the tailor's much-needed cherry-coloured twist, all is lost until a band of Beatrix Potter's distinctly well-dressed mice get together to save the day.
In Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart channels Joan of Arc as she leads a cavalry charge in full body armour, assisted by a band of revolutionary dwarves who are radicalised after losing their jobs as miners.
The bands also represented a mélange of lost epochs.
Warning is the sound of a band losing its way".
