Very, Very Powerful Motor

Very, Very Powerful Motor is the second studio album by the Fastbacks, released in 1990 on PopLlama Records.

The second track, "Apologies," is a cover of a Pointed Sticks song.

Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote that the album "gives Bloch’s pop-rooted songs rocking arrangements that occasionally overwhelm them." Greil Marcus, in Artforum, called it "unreconstructed punk with a lot of melody, no apologies ... and Kim Warnick, for whom singing flat is just a form a realism."

Track listing
All songs written by Kurt Bloch, except where noted.
 * 1) "In the Summer" – 3:23
 * 2) "Apologies" (Nick Jones) – 1:50
 * 3) "Trouble Sleeping" – 3:18
 * 4) "Better Than Before" – 3:25
 * 5) "What to Expect/Dirk's Car Jam" – 5:02
 * 6) "Says Who?" – 4:12
 * 7) "Last Night I Had a Dream That I Could Fly" – 5:13
 * 8) "I Won't Regret" – 3:25
 * 9) "I Guess" – 2:41
 * 10) "Always Tomorrow" – 4:25
 * 11) "I'll Be Okay" – 5:00
 * 12) "Everything I Don't Need" – 3:22

Personnel

 * Kim Warnick – vocals, bass
 * Kurt Bloch – guitar
 * Lulu Gargiulo – guitar
 * Nate Johnson – drums