twelvepoint wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:23 am

M.H wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 5:49 am

penningtron wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 5:03 pm Some good radio singles. The Seeds of Love is peak '80s over-production to a comical degree.

Yes on both counts.

"Serious" to a comically pompous extreme; yet hard to deny the level of craft involved.

When did that come out, ‘89? Not a lot of bands doing that pull out all stops takes on retro flower power music at that point, although XTC certainly comes to mind.

The single is Beatles-esque (the chorus is basically Hello Goodbye) but most of the record is Sting-adjacent adult pop/jazz fusion with what I'm sure is a long list of studio musicians. It's just funny hearing parts where someone, likely coked up, thought "you know this feels a bit incomplete. Let's put a female choir and shreddy guitar solo through the whole thing".

Thank you FM Isabell Gall for that tip years ago, this record is a hoot.

Ah, I figured they’d gone in a more retro direction overall. I think I am far enough past my dream of the blue turtles trauma to give the whole record a try.

The Big Chair was the soundtrack at a local waterpark in 85. Those singles got played every hour the entire summer there.

Lots of hooky and well recorded tracks that I never listen to. Not crap.

penningtron wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:49 am It's just funny hearing parts where someone, likely coked up, thought "you know this feels a bit incomplete. Let's put a female choir and shreddy guitar solo through the whole thing".

You do wonder who okayed the budget for third album, when was pretty clear they'd just spend as much time as money would allow in a studio. 4 years, and £1m later, you get Seeds of Love.