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| Released: 1985 (Chrysalis) Written by: Peter Cox & Richard Drummie Produced by: Gary Stevenson Album: Go West |
| U. S. Billboard Charts: | |
| Hot 100 | 41 |
| Dance | 5 |
Narrowly missing the Top 40, I never heard this one on the Dallas radio stations I listened to at the time. However, this wonderfully fun Godley & Creme video was on the MTV (and the dorms had cable!):
I never understood the pipe wrench or the lyrics, but what a synth hook! That thing hits you in the face about 7 seconds in. Lots of over-produced synth hits, pads, and effects throughout - the producer was having fun. All this over a driving, danceable, eighth note beat. And then we get a nice bridge that goes right back into that sweet synth hook.
Sure, the synths really date this thing, but I think it's aged fairly well. Maybe that's just because I didn't hear it enough back in '85. And I still don't hear it on the radio (XM or "'80s Flashback Weekends"). Never heard the rest of the album. Why I didn't buy it on the strength of this single, I'll never know. Shrug.
I never understood the pipe wrench or the lyrics, but what a synth hook! That thing hits you in the face about 7 seconds in. Lots of over-produced synth hits, pads, and effects throughout - the producer was having fun. All this over a driving, danceable, eighth note beat. And then we get a nice bridge that goes right back into that sweet synth hook.
Sure, the synths really date this thing, but I think it's aged fairly well. Maybe that's just because I didn't hear it enough back in '85. And I still don't hear it on the radio (XM or "'80s Flashback Weekends"). Never heard the rest of the album. Why I didn't buy it on the strength of this single, I'll never know. Shrug.
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