Time Toy

One of the lesser-known guitar pop bands to emerge from the fertile Athens, Georgia music scene of the 1980s, Time Toy was formed in 1984 by singer/guitarist Bryan Cook (formerly of Is Ought Gap), ex-Little Tigers guitarist Paul Hammond, bassist Danny Cottar and drummer Rob McMahon. The group favored a more rhythmically complex and danceable sound than most of its Athens brethren, with Cook's odd, rambling vocals owing more to spoken word performance than conventional singing -- as a result, Time Toy never enjoyed more than a small but devout cult following, although that fan ...