![]() Well that’s really the crux of the matter. WE TALKED LAST YEAR ABOUT YOUR FEELING THAT YOU NEED A VERY CLEAR IDEA AND A STRONG CONCEPT WHEN YOU BEGIN AN ALBUM – SO, WHAT WAS GOING ON HERE? I THINK YOU WERE REALLY PUSHING YOUR OWN ENVELOPE, AT THIS POINT. THERE ARE REFERENCES TO THE BEATLES, TO T-REX… THERE’S THIS SORT OF CREEPING WEIRDNESS (ON WILD MUSHROOMS) AND THIS HARD EDGE (ON MORNING IS BROKEN), NEITHER OF WHICH WAS THE SORT OF THING THAT HAD BEEN HEARD FROM YOU BEFORE. THIRD SOLO ALBUM BAD VIBES WAS RELEASED IN OCTOBER 1993. Part One (focusing on X and DON’T GET WEIRD ON ME BABE) here Here, in Part Two of a three part interview in which Cole discusses these first four solo albums and what came after, we focus on BAD VIBES and LOVE STORY… Later came the songwriter / rock band hybrid DON’T GET WEIRD ON ME BABE (1991), the experimental and misunderstood (though, to some, miscalculated) BAD VIBES (1993) and the ‘comeback’ of sorts LOVE STORY (in 1995). It was written and recorded in New York, the city Cole had moved to in 1989 to escape London and his recent past. His solo debut LLOYD COLE (sometimes referred to as X) was released in early 1990 a strong, confident and liberated rock record which was run through with a sense of geography. At the time of its release Cole and The Mouth Magazine podcasted at length about it (listen again, here). When we signed off, Cole described plans for a further box set, concentrating on the four albums which followed. Last year an impressively curated box set collected together almost all of the work by erudite 1980s lit-poppers The Commotions. #Kristen hersh put me in that box full#THESE DAYS COLE MOST OFTEN PERFORMS AS WHAT HE SOMEWHAT ARCHLY DESCRIBES AS A SOLO “FOLK-SINGER”, AND THIS HANDFUL OF BAND SHOWS REPRESENTS THE FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS THAT HIS EXTENSIVE BACK CATALOGUE HAS BEEN GIVEN ‘THE FULL TREATMENT’. IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS LLOYD COLE WILL BE PLAYING FIVE SHOWS IN THE UK WITH GLASGOW OUTFIT THE LEOPARDS AS HIS BACKING MUSICIANS. ![]()
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