[3] The single has since been called “raw, loud, and nothing like the prevailing music of the time.”[3] The band was unable to get a record deal, which led to its dissolution later that year.

[1] At their debut live performance, at Rutgers University in 1970, band members smashed 15 television sets and “a bunch of mirrors” with axes and sledgehammers.

[1] In 2006, Norton Records founders Billy Miller and Miriam Linna discovered and re-released the “It’s Lame” single, prompting Figures of Light to reunite.

[9] The band’s newly recorded material was combined with early in-studio and live tracks for their first full-length release, Smash Hits (2008).

Make an impact, keep it short, say what you want, and get out.The band broke up amicably in March, 2015; with Dixon stating that "we've done everything we want to do with FOL; now it's time to move on."