IanB wrote: machineryelf wrote: Stock Aitken & Waterman started off producing albums with Youth IIRC, that would make a good unsung article, sorting out the SAW gems from the chaff
Absolutely, I have a load of songs culled in ones and two from my kids and more mainstream friend's abums going back to TLC and all that. There is a lot of great pop out there just not in album length chunks.
SAW did that Brilliant album with Youth and June Montana in 86. It's alright. The singles were pretty good. The rest fillerish. I booked them at the ICA for a New Years Day show in 85 and they were fantastic, if a bit agrieved at having to play to a v small audience of hungover after-the-lord-mayor's-show loyalists. They were a sort of pure pop version of Big Audio Dynamite or Dreadzone.
And were Brilliant not managed by Balfe and Drummond?
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