The Big Elbow

 

A Certain Ratio - The Big E [ACRY 514 UK 1989 24-Bit FLAC]

In all my years of blogging, A Certain Ratio are very likely my most covered band, The Big E was their biggest stab at the hit parade. The song is lush & textured pop music, wrapped in a highly polished Julian Mendelsohn production, it could have been a huge hit on the radio - it wasn't. It could have repaid the Mancunian trio for all their years of hard graft after they jumped from the important yet commercially naïve  Factory Records into the arms of sharp and shiny suited major label execs - it didn't. 

A few weeks ago, I promised a multi-resolution re-visit to those singles from their A&M Records years, here is the first.

A1 The Big E

B1 Love Is The Way (Instrumental)

B2 Day 2