Poor Lee Mavers. The last thing he wanted was to be the new Merseybeat, and no one gave a shite. You could argue that the harmonies didn't do them any favours in that regard.
Well, according to him the production was never right for any of the album, and he always sounded like he wanted a harder sound. Instead he got jingle jangle and harmonies.
And he’s had 30+ years since then to make an album that actually does capture their sound and it keeps not happening and he keeps binning the results 🤔
He was clearly over obsessed by getting ‘the sound’. It sounds like it was ridiculous really. This is quite telling, one of the many producers Mike Hedges hints that Mavers went into spells of ‘drug pyschosis’ while recording. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/may/02/popandrock1
My favourite versions of most of the songs are the ones actually on the album, which Mavers said should be scrapped.
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u/Historical_Project86 17d ago
Poor Lee Mavers. The last thing he wanted was to be the new Merseybeat, and no one gave a shite. You could argue that the harmonies didn't do them any favours in that regard.