hypersongs

Quality Street

Their only album, UK 50, with a cover of the Honeycombs' "This Too Shall Pass Away".
World of Twist, 1991

Dave Ball of the Grid produced at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, Liverpool and Fulham and mixed at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios; Sanderson suggested him, and King told The Quietus he brought a 1990s approach, while the band had wanted Keith Mansfield, Bob Ezrin, Todd Rundgren or Trevor Horn. The cover shows the band in Georgian costume styled on Quality Street tins. Ogden told the Guardian in 2005 they spent 250,000 pounds making an album with the smallest bollocks in pop history. Reception at release was mixed to poor; Desperate Living later called it criminally underrated and a template for nu-psych, and King said the 2013 remaster sounds much better.

Track listing

  1. Lose My Way3:10
  2. Sons of the Stage5:09
  3. This Too Shall Pass Away4:06
  4. Jellybaby3:44
  5. Speed Wine3:43
  6. The Lights3:36
  7. On the Scene4:33
  8. Sweets4:48
  9. The Spring3:51
  10. The Storm3:50
  11. She’s a Rainbow4:19
  12. Life and Death8:36

Sources

  1. A law unto themselves: World of Twist in their own words, The Quietus (2013-12-11)
  2. One album wonders: World of Twist's Quality Street, Eric Brightwell (2014-11-24)
  3. World of Twist, Wikipedia