One More Megabyte is the ninth studio album by the English punk rock band Toy Dolls.
The title track itself refers to a young man obsessed with playing computer games who requires "one more megabyte."
Other topics on the album include the quarrels of lovers, the subject of at least four songs, "snotty" Shakespearean actors and "lonely introverts."
They have wild choruses, blazing guitar riffs, lightning-fast cover tunes (e.g., “I’m Gonna Be 500 Miles”), and make your heart open up!
The Toy Dolls had regularly toured and recorded new albums in the 1990s, including Fat Bob's Feet (1991), Absurd-Ditties (1993) and Orcastrated (1995), each continuing the band's humorous approach to punk rock and Oi!
"[5] The liner notes also thank Kevin Beston and Fred Sherrif for backing vocals and Danny "on the piano".
"[2] "Jimmy" of Captain Oi!, writing for Razorcake, said that the album contains "some of the catchiest hooks they’ve come up with in years.
[5] The title track is about a computer game addict who rhetorically asks himself "can I possibly survive without Windows 95?
"[3] On the song, Olga is "directly sympathetic" with lyrics such as "Addict with Apple Mac, megabyte maniac", with Joachim Hiller of Ox Fanzine commenting "we go there to hew hereafter on PC / DOS users.
[9] Guests in the backing chorus include members of the Vibrators, The Lurkers, The Wildhearts, Sugar Snatch, and the Inmates.
"[3] For example, the title song begins with a young man's parents placing a time bomb under his computer in hopes that he will "get off that damn computer!," whilst at the end of the song, a plea for "one more megabyte" — "to stave off the insanity that will come if there’s not enough to run the system" — features as the bomb explodes, with the young man commenting that "Cor!
[8] When asked by Flipside why it had taken a great deal of time for the band to release another album in the United States, Olga said that "I think [American record labels] just never knew how to market us.
"[12] The band were also interviewed with Flipside,[8] Steel Toe Records,[17] and My Letter to the World[12] in promotion of the album.
punk from the Toy Dolls, featuring such ditties as "I'm a Lonely Bastard," "The Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe," "She's a Leech,"and a cover of the Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).
They have wild choruses, blazing guitar riffs, lightning-fast cover tunes (e.g., “I’m Gonna Be 500 Miles”), and make your heart open up!
Guests in the backing chorus include members of the Vibrators, Lurkers, Wildhearts, Sugar Snatch, and the Inmates.
As per usual, a couple of cover songs (“(I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles,” “The Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe”) are given the Toy Dolls treatment.
When you take into account that the most run-of-the-mill Toy Dolls release is miles ahead of some other bands’ best work, the fact that this one is especially good makes it a rare gem, indeed.
[8] In his 2004 book Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984, Ian Glasper said that One More Megabyte was "a strong entry into the band's catalogue.
"[12] Similarly, when asked about whether he considered Orcastrated was an album he particularly liked in a 1997 interview with Steel Toe Records, Olga said "not really, but our new one, One More Megabyte is really nice.
[22] Two songs from One More Megabyte, " She'll Be Back with Keith Someday" and "The Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe", reappeared on the band's best-of compilation We're Mad: The Anthology (2002).