Catherine Wheel - Adam and Eve
A huge recovery from Happy Days.
Dickinson, Futter, Hawes, and Sims expand their palette further, put together a collections of great, varied tracks, assisted by producers Bob Ezrin and Garth Richards.
Despite that, the band just never took off. There'd be one very weak follow-up, Wishville, and that's all she wrote.
Future Boy, live, from the tour that followed this release:
I did like someone's comment that Catherine Wheel was a midpoint between the braininess of Radiohead (who opened for them) and the dunderheadedness of Oasis...seems about right.
Also, there's just *so much* Pink Floyd-ness on this album. I mean, in case you didn't get it, they basically reproduced the "radio" trick from Wish You Were Here on one track...and hired producer Bob Ezrin, who did The Wall...
@Luke @dnanian I love that band. There’s not a single record of theirs I don’t like.
Growing up in Boston, not a lot of people I knew liked them and I could never understand why. The first time I heard “Black Metallic” it blew my mind.
Adam and Eve is a great fucking album.
Unfortunately, somebody stole my vinyl copy from my house during a party.
@TheVinylApe @Luke Oh no! That may be a jailing offense. :-)
Hey, I'm from Boston and *I* knew about them. :-)
And given the collaborated with Tanya Donelly (and came to Fort Apache to record her vocal part)...clearly they were at least a little known.
They just didn't break through for some reason. But three great albums, one good album, and one bad album (not counting the B-Sides LP) is a pretty good legacy!
Dave Nanian
Luke Dorny 
The Vinyl Ape 🦧