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Though they do earn some cred points by having had Mike Nocito as a member, one of the engineers behind The Cure's Pornography and apparently close pals with ex-Cure bassist Phil Thornalley, who replaced Clark Datchler on lead vocals when Datchler left the group in 1991

I believe Thornalley produced their debut album. (Possibly as a replacement, as the production sounds a lot like Alex Sadkin, and there is a cryptic "To Alex: Thanks... and goodbye" message inside)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps not so cryptic; wasn't Sadkin killed in a car crash round about that time?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: Dolby, not just _The Flat Earth_, but _The Golden Age of Wireless_. That album cries for a 2cd 'remaster w/ bonus' treatment.

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

re Dolby - well the whole catalogue is now part of EMI and i have read that there is indeed a campaign to get exactly that, and seeing as the man himself is out there plugging his songs again on stage (the shows are brilliant - the revised versions of the classics really work) then i do indeed wonder if we are coming to a time when Dolby gets his time again.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't exactly set one's pulse racing.

I agree. Where the hell's Colin these days?

― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

please don't refer to XTC as "80's synth pop."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps not so cryptic; wasn't Sadkin killed in a car crash round about that time?

Sure. About three or four months prior to their "Shattered Dreams" breakthrough, so it is not at all impossible he was set to produce them. Their sound had some Sadkin-like elements to them, notably the bass sound.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Colin's pretty much retired from music, I'm afraid.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I would check out Tuxedomoon, if you haven't already. I've been enjoying the heck out of "Desire" recently.

Also try out the Hosono/YMO/Sakamoto crowd of records if you're craving that 80s sound. They did some of the most interesting work. Selections of Virginia Astley's "Hope in a Darkened Heart" (produced by Sakamoto) are total brialliance.

― Tommy James (Tommy James), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Look, just forget it. Can't we talk about XTC some more?

― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Saturday, 20 January 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Just discovered this thread, but I'm interested in this stuff currently.

Naked Eyes? I haven't heard a bad song by them.

Early stuff by Flowers / Icehouse - at least first two albums.

― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link

Also...how could people have missed Scritti Politti?

― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link

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