I don't use this term often, but Pete Shelley absolutely created some music that was Pop Perfect, and this album has some perfect examples on it. Peter Campbell McNeish aka Pete Shelley released "XL-1" in 1983 after his band The Buzzcocks broke up in 1981 due to problems with their record company.
I will never understand why this song wasn't a big hit, but there are a lot of things that I don't understand!
"If it makes no difference, I guess we'll never win."
Whoa! This is a fuckin' great song. Shave about 1:00-1:30 from the length, and I'll bet it would've been a hit -- at least on MTV if not on the radio.
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