THE CUTTING EDGE
Standard-brand pop-rock was/is/will be the norm, so why not cast a journalistic eye on its practitioners from time to time? Besides, Cutting Crew are much better at this sort of stuff—melodic, guitar-driven poprock and aching ballads—than the similarly styled Glass Tiger, and they didn’t even need Bryan Adams on backup vocals to fly up the charts.
THE CUTTING EDGE
Standard-brand pop-rock was/is/will be the norm, so why not cast a journalistic eye on its practitioners from time to time? Besides, Cutting Crew are much better at this sort of stuff—melodic, guitar-driven poprock and aching ballads—than the similarly styled Glass Tiger, and they didn’t even need Bryan Adams on backup vocals to fly up the charts. Plus, at the time of this interview, the Crew in question were just a few weeks away from topping the charts with the mainstream “(I Just) Died In Your Arms.”
Their debut album, Broadcast, is ail about love and/or the necessity of taking control of your own life; there are echoes of Yes and Genesis (“They sit in the back of your brain,” says Nick Van Eede, the group’s lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and chief songwriter), some well-defined atmospherics, an inadvertent rip from the Pointer Sisters’ “Automatic,” and, yup, catchy tunes—especially the second single, the rockier “One For The Mockingbird.”