The Catherine Wheel cut several albums (plus a good b-sides collection) during the post-Nirvana flowering of English guitar bands centering around industrial towns like Manchester and Birmingham. They shared an affection for layered, distorted guitars with the Stone Roses and their ilk, but they eschewed dance rhythms for a more artful, Pink Floyd-derived approach. The first two albums have awesome moments ("Black Metallic," "Crank"), but the third, Happy Days, is a stunner. The band focused their songwriting, distilling an already formidable capacity for beauty and power into a killer bunch of songs. Their recent albums, Adam & Eve and Wishville, have been a bit of a comedown, but they were in lofty territory. What really pisses me off is that Radiohead are getting rich while these guys will soon be back pumping gas.