With the singles, did you ever think you could cross over to “Urusei Yatsua-sized” success?
Em…no. None of them, except, when we did Stereo Girls, me and Mark Gibbons worked that out, and we thought “let’s make a really good pop single” we wanted it to sound like Blondie or something, but it’s the same thing, we were just working in really bad conditions. It was recorded in a studio on the other end of town in the middle of the night, and everybody was totally knackered and fucked and drunk. I was steaming when I did the lyrics – it was badly mixed. It nearly nearly nearly got there. I mean, I could record “Stereo Girls” in the house now and make it sound 50 times better, but I didn’t have that opportunity at he time. You re-did Policeman as “Policemanoid” and you re-did Supermarket as “Hypermarket”, and it sounds much denser… Yeah, there’s more detail and that. At the time when I was doing the band, I hated most of the records because I knew what they were meant to sound like. But to be honest now, cos it’s over, it’s not my ongoing concern, I like the sort of character
