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Following hot on the heels
of "The World Is Ours"
single, the band opened 1989 with a new single, which was the
title track of the bands forthcoming debut studio album "Never
Another Sunset", released on vinyl 7” and 12”
single. Keen to re-establish
themselves after the year long break from recording, the band
quickly followed up 1988's "Winter
Thrash" UK tour - with another one called "Groove
Collision" to promote
the new album and single, kicking off in Birmingham just three
months after the end of "Winter Thrash". The lead track was another
example of the Rose's ability to pen a brooding, smoldering
ballad, following a path that "A
Thousand Landscapes" and "Velveteen"
had trodden before. Despite only officially appearing on this
release in 1989, the band must have been working on the song for
some considerable length of time, as it first appeared in their BBC
Radio 1 session aired back on 11th March 1986, some three
years earlier. Comparing the two versions, they are very similar
with only small changes in the phrasing. On the B side we find the
delightful and surprising "Mistakes". The
opening 1:05 of this song is yet another beautiful example of the
guitar work of Berry, Schultz and McKay. When the vocal comes in I
don’t think Phil's vocal style is a natural fit to the almost
flamenco rhythm of the track, but he just about pulls it off and
it remains, especially for a B side, a great Rose track. The 12" closes out
with a cover of Iggy
Pop's Gimme Danger. It had been a while since the Rose had
referenced their well documented American influences, and this is
another track that they made their own, with a great cover
version, markedly different to the original recording.
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