listen to the production of it, it is a superb album. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Love
Saw them in Sheffield a few years ago. Free ticket and really enjoyed it. Agreed great album and with orchestra it was amazing.
We go to Glastonwick down near Lancing every year - Real Ale festival with good music run by Atilla the Stockbroker if you are looking for other Glastonbury alternatives...
That's so 80s - there used to be a radio programme in the 80s where various DJs would review the latest singles - they rarely mentioned the music, just the production - a lot of that stuff listened to now is just awful, so overproduced it hurts
The Akai sampler had just been invented. And the linn drum sample drum machine. People had trouble making it sound natural, but loved not having to deal with/pay a drummer/strings etc and got carried away...
If you listen to the first two Scritti Politti LPs (), Songs to Remember is a pretty basic production but with some great songs on it, just a couple of years later in mid 80s you have Cupid and Psyche which has that very, prhaps even overproduced 80's feel... but again its got some cracking songs on it, and Green's voice was , to me, peerless. Same with Lexicon, if you've got great songs, they'll still shine through being overproduced. Was it the Linn that Phil Collins uses on In The Air Tonight?
I used to have a thing about Green (in a manly way...), used to wish I could have that voice and be as cool and good looking as him....nearest I ever got was bumping into Tom (from early Scritti line up) coming home from Hammersmith after seeing The Residents
