Throw the Warped Wheel Out by Fiction Factory

Throw the Warped Wheel Out, the 1984 debut from Perth's Fiction Factory, came out on CBS and carried "(Feels Like) Heaven", the single that became the band's calling card across Britain and Europe. The group had grown out of a ska outfit called the Rude Boys, and the core lineup was Kevin Patterson on vocals, Eddie Jordan on keyboards, Chic Medley on guitar, Graham McGregor on bass and Mike Ogletree on drums.

It's synth-pop with a brooding streak: shimmering keyboard textures wrapped around lyrics that stare inward. Alan Rankine of the Associates sat in on Synclavier and produced the single "All or Nothing". At home the album never made the charts, though Switzerland, Sweden and Germany took to it, and the band never matched that first hit; after Another Story they called it a day.

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