Back once again is your K-101.7 Song Of The Day, where we give you a little back story, play you a song and then give you something free. What more could you possibly want, A COOKIE? FUDGE!?!

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The album came out in 1987 and burned like crazy for nearly two years, spinning off single after single. Coming off of much tragedy and loss, this was the shot the band needed, and it was their pinnacle, and it was world conquering. Not bad for a group of kids from the down market town of Sheffield, England.

The amazing thing about this song, the thing that drove most people crazy who worked with him, was producer Mutt Lange's meticulous and somewhat insane method of recording. Build up a not just a song, but every guitar chord, by recording each individual note separate and stacking them up into giant walls. On their previous album, this had run the band into trouble when, at the end of the recording process, the realized that every single guitar part was out of tune. Yet they came back to Mutt, and his insanity took them to the top and beyond.

From January of 1988, where it number ten on the hot one hundred, here is your prime slice of eighties "chick rock" and your-

-K-101.7 Song Of The Day!

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