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That’s right, this is our third rehearsal in the last five or six weeks…
It’s our first show ever! Obviously after twenty years we’ve had to go back and learn the songs all over again, and you know, although they sound deceptively simple actually the chords and the structure and stuff is quite tricky!
Well that is very much what we were always trying to achieve, to make it musical like you just said. Mike was – and still is – very much into West Coast music, as was Clark, so a lot of our influences were from there, things like Steely Dan and Michael McDonald. In fact Donald Fagan’s ‘The Nightfly’ was a big inspiration for the sound of ‘Shattered Dreams’, the trend back in 1987 was to have these big drum sounds like Phil Collins’ but we did the opposite and tried to make everything sound really small and I think that’s part of why the sound was quite distinctive.
Yeah, we engineered and produced our own records and because of that they were our babies we did put a lot into it… we were pretty meticulous, we’d spend maybe two days just on a hi-hat track! I don’t think we could be called perfectionists because I don’t think we quite achieved perfection (laughs) but it was ne
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Turn Back the Clock (album)
1988 studio album by Johnny Hates Jazz
Turn Back the Clock is the debut studio album by English band Johnny Hates Jazz, released by Virgin Records on 11 January 1988 in United Kingdom and on 29 March 1988 in the United States. The album, whose most famous single was "Shattered Dreams", peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart and at number 56 on the US Billboard 200. Kim Wilde sings backing vocals on the title track, which reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart and number 10 in New Zealand. The track "Foolish Heart" was originally released as a single in 1986 as "Me and My Foolish Heart".
The song "Listen", written and co-produced by Phil Thornalley, was later re-recorded for his solo album Swamp, also released in 1988.[7]
Reception
[edit]Michael Sutton of AllMusic wrote, "The music on Turn Back the Clock is generally upbeat synth pop, but the words are often sad. Although Johnny Hates Jazz offer no profound revelations about failed relationships or lost love, there is genuine emotion beneath the studio luster of "What Other Reason," "Different Seasons," "Don't Let It End This Way," and "Foolish Heart."". The viewer described the album as "a true guilty pleasure" with "no artistic risks yet it's too hummable t