In 1989, the band released their second album Gretchen Goes to Nebraska . Considered by many fans to be their landmark album and most creative period, the album fared only slightly better from a commercial standpoint than Out of the Silent Planet . The band played with a wide variety of acts while touring in support of it, including Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies , M.O.D., Living Colour , Billy Squier , and Blue Murder . The album contains many fan favorites such as “Summerland”, “Mission”, and “The Burning Down”. The song “The Difference (In the Garden of St. Anne’s-on-the-Hill)” appears to be another C.S. Lewis reference, this time to a scene in the book That Hideous Strength , third and final installment of the “science-fiction” trilogy begun by Out of the Silent Planet . The song “Pleiades” is credited by Ty Tabor as being the genesis of the King’s X sound when he presented the demo to the other band members a few years earlier. Significantly, the song “Over My Head” received moderate airplay on MTV and radio.
In 1989, the band released their second album Gretchen Goes to
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