@AccordionBruce And it was on Rolling Stone's mid-80s top 100 albums of the Rock Era (or whatever the hell that list was called) which I very nearly collected all of. As you note - no one else did either. Damn, indeed.
@Bishopjoey
I almost certainly heard of them while poring over the grey Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll book
@AccordionBruce whoa. I had that once upon a time.
@Bishopjoey
Possible I carried it to record shops with me for reference