[kj] Few things here and there...

[Luca Signorelli]

Paul Rangecroft ha scritto:
> Yes, I agree, Mal. There was definitely a decission made by the 
> band/management/label post-Iceland to try to get in the charts. They 
> nearly made it a few times before LLB, too. I guess we can all be 
> thankful they didn't. Compare Raven's first single, 'Birds of a 
> Feather', with Youth's last (before he came back), 'Chop-chop'. Nuff 
> said.
>
It was the other way, actually - when they returned from Iceland they 
hit the charts a few times ("Eighties" made it in the top 20, if I'm not 
remembering uncorrectly) before "Nighttime" was released. But there was 
not conscious attempt to become more commercial. A lot of the grooves 
and the musical attitudes of "Night Time" were already present at a 
embryonic level in  "Revelation" and "Fire Dances". In a way, their 
"hit" period was as experimental as the age before, the only real 
difference being that for a brief age their kind of experiment was 
something that the "masses" were digging.

Back then, "Birds of a Feather" didn't sound particularly poppy. It was 
a differentent kind of KJ, but still very much KJ.