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 * "I think we have such a good reputation from the past that I'm scared of doing it in the future for fear of ruining that reputation."


 * We did it all at once in Chris Difford of Squeeze's studio. At first, Chris offered us free time but then asked for money. We didn't pay, so he stole the master tapes and he's still got them to this day. We recorded the whole double album once, basically. And then we started again, but I didn't like the outcome. The third time we did it was the one we kept. I guess one could look at the first two attempts as very expensive demos.


 * “We were so depressed. There was no life in our songs. The recordings lacked energy, and all the crash and clatter of our former sound had been replaced by cleanly recorded, gentle sounds. It suited some songs but it certainly wasn't us!”

""Ooh, I’m a bit funny about how this came out, Steve, because it sounds a bit Beatles-esque to me, and I don’t want people to think I’m copying the Beatles." He said, "Who gives a fuck? That’s how you’ve written it—just do it!' ... I realised that I should not be ashamed about digging them up, and getting them wrong, and using them as my template."
 * two weeks were spent
 * only once more
 * punk movement's explicit disregard
 * we [only] did the [dukes]