God’s Own Medicine by Mission U.K.

God's Own Medicine, released by Mercury on 10 November 1986, was the first full album from the Mission (billed as the Mission UK in America), the band Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams started after their time in the Sisters of Mercy. Hussey sang and played guitar, Adams held down the bass, and they brought in Simon Hinkler on guitar and Mick Brown behind the drums. Tim Palmer produced.

It's gothic rock with the curtains thrown open: big, chiming guitars, a rhythm section that actually swings, and Hussey crooning through heartache and rapture like a man who has read every Romantic poet twice. "Wasteland" and "Stay With Me" carry the sweep and swoon of the thing best. The vinyl held 10 songs; the CD and cassette tacked on "Blood Brother" and "Island in the Stream" from an earlier single. It made number 14 on the UK albums chart, a healthy start for a band barely a year old.

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