In 1979, Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind" reshaped my entire sensibility about pop music.
But, I only recently learned that Nick Lowe had to be aggressively cajoled into re-recording "Cruel to be Kind."
He reportedly felt that the original (ca. 1974) Brinsley Schwarz version was "embarrassingly pre-new wave."
Oh, Nick. You magnificent bastard.
@hotdogsladies He wasn’t wrong.
I seem to recall that the Brinsley Schwarz’s guitarist became Graham Parker’s Rumour’s guitarist. If I’m right, he beefed up his sound and to his credit. (Lowe also produced early Parker. A note, not for Mr. Mann, but for those who some how care but cannot remember or didn’t know.)
And I think it’d be nigh impossible for Messrs. Edmunds, Bremner, and Williams to be as cabaret as the earlier recording.
He did! That's the titular Brinsley
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