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Bad Blood
Waiting On the Wire
Count On Angels
The Warmest Kiss

Recorded at Blackwing
Engineered by John Fryer
Cover photo by Ari
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Although I’m sure John Fryer used drum samples to enhance the sound on some of our other songs, Bad Blood is the first song on which I was really aware of this happening and remember him playing us a variety of sounds and asking if we preferred the drum sound on Born In The USA to something like In The Air Tonight, which we found very amusing. I remember being really pleased with how big and powerful the drums sounded at the time, but listened to it recently and couldn’t believe how overpowering the drums sounded in comparison to to the small, polite guitars, but as with all things, certain sounds become fashionable and one’s ear becomes accustomed to them, and in the late Eighties the fashionable sound was big, big drums
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The Warmest Kiss was a song we had been doing live for quite a while before recording it and ended up sounding pretty similar to how it did onstage. But although we had performed Waiting On The Wire a couple of times before going into the studio, once we’d recorded it we didn’t want to play it live again because although we were really happy with it beforehand, we’d added so many layers while recording it (even Tris did a vocal part ), that it sounded really empty when we tried to recreate it live in comparison to the recorded version which was really rich and spacey.

Taken from interview with Ari.
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