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Let's just state at the outset that Billy's work with Alan Rankine was utterly unique and nothing he ever did again approached the careening beauty of Affectionate Punch, Fourth Drawer Down or Sulk.
But as noted here, Billy's post-Sulk gets a very unfair rap. I recently picked up the Glamour Chase/Perhaps two-fer, and while I've always liked what I knew of the latter, some of the GC is absolutely wonderful (if a bit schizo).
Personally, I think Wild and Lonely is masterful. Hardly the "garish eurodisco" Trouser Press said it was, the record is like Kraftwerk producing Scott Walker, marrying a very detailed Julian Mendelssohn production with some of Billy's most aching tunes. "Strasbourg Square," "Calling All Around the World," the title track, "Where There's Love" are all among the best things he ever did. (and of course, he disowned it)
But I'm also interested to know if anyone knows Billy's 90's work very well, where he started to embrace dance music head on...
What say ILM of post-Sulk Billy?
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Perhaps (1984) | 1 |
| Wild and Lonely (1990) | 1 |
| Outernational (1992) | 1 |
| Beyond the Sun (1997) | 1 |
| Memory Palace (1999 w/ Paul Haig) | 1 |
| The Glamour Chase (1988 -- unreleased until 2005) | 0 |
| Eurocentric (2001 w/ Steve Aungle) | 0 |
| Auchtermatic (2005) | 0 |
| Transmission Impossible (2005) | 0 |
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 02:04 (seventeen years ago)