Aaaaaabsolutely

Faaaaabulous

The record that started it all, from the inimitable duo of Tennant and Lowe.  There’s a time-lapse vhs video somewhere from ninety ninety something of us unpacking a gig to this record, and then there’s me seeing the boys less than a 7 minute walk from my old flat in Newmarket.  There’s the “I can program a computer” line which never fails to make me laugh, there’s the inevitable and inescapable romance of Love Comes Quickly, and there is the king of the heap, my gateway drug to British synthpop when I was a wee’un, West End Girls.  This landmark debut is a piece of history, and for my money, nothing else in 1986 comes close.