The band was named, formed and founded in 1988 when brothers John and Steve Taylor teamed up with longtime friend Bill Cory on bass and James "Trainwreck" Robinson on drums.
The album yielded two alternative radio hits, "What God Said" and "Too High For The Supermarket," while other songs became featured on TV shows like Party of Five, Beverly Hills 90210, and MTV's Road Rules and The Real World.
Shortly afterward, original bassist Bill Cory was replaced by Frederick "Ladd" Story, formerly of Los Angeles prog-rock kings Urban Circus.
In December 2001, the band completed its sixth full-length album, Malltopia, which was produced, engineered and mixed by the Taylor Brothers in their new studio.
In 2002, the band released their Teenage Dance Party album on Roarshack Records, a collection of rarities that sold well despite the fact that CDs were becoming less popular than downloadable files.