Seduce's claim to fame was that they appeared in the documentary "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years", where they were interviewed and performed the song "Crash Landing."  In the movie there's a scene where  guitarist David Black is asked by director Penelope Spheeris, "Who's the biggest band in Detroit?" to which he answers "us." And that was no lie, the band was huge in Detroit, but not anywhere else.  As Black states in the flick, "I'm busting my balls at this. Of course, I wanna make it. Whatever it takes, last drop of blood, because I'm in it till the death."  Of course, they didn't make it.  After self-producing the harder, rawer, self-titled debut in 1985 (pre-Decline of Western Civilization) they were signed, in true Spinal Tap-esque fashion, to the wrong label (Miles Copeland's I.R.S. Records, whose 2 big name acts were REM & The Go-Gos).  In Chuck Burns' words:  "They were trying to break new territory.  We took the deal because they had such a short roster. But they had REM and the Go-Go's, so that meant the label had money. We thought, 'Well, if we can be one of the few metal bands on this label with a short roster that has loot, we might come out of this good' — only to do a record and come to find that their whole distribution was way more set up for college radio. They signed us and we did a record that they didn't really know what to do with, so it was just one of those weird things."  Not sure how many puppet shows and Air Force Dances the label had them play.

 

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