A darker but more solid record than its predecessor, 1987's Babble was an utterly magnificent collection of postpunk-influenced '80s guitar pop-rock which helped make the Petrols darlings of both the critics and the dancefloors, here as well as in Britain (I'm not sure many of their admirers there read the liner notes or understood what the songs were about, but never mind). It was absolutely one of my favourite albums of the year and in fact I was a bit obsessive about them at the time. But it still holds up remarkably well almost 25 years later.
This was the opening track, and it was one of those songs that as soon as it began you knew you were in for a monster of an album. Although never a single, it definitely had its impact; when they played in Dublin a year or two ago a number of punters (myself included) were heard after the gig lamenting the fact that this wasn't on the setlist. Here's a live clip from the early '90s which does a pretty good job of showing why.
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