Album · Modern English
Stop Start by Modern English
Stop Start is an album by Modern English, released in 1986. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Ink and Paper”, on 3 lists with a best position of #14.
Stop Start, Modern English's fourth album, came out on Sire in 1986, and it shows where the Colchester band's audience lay by then: America was keen enough on them that the record came out there first. "Ink and Paper" led the way as the first single, and the band crossed North America on bills that put them alongside Afrika Bambaataa and A Flock of Seagulls, about as unlikely a pairing as the decade could dream up.
The post-punk edges of their early days are buffed into glossy, synth-sheened new wave pop here, built for the radio. It stalled at No. 154 on the Billboard 200, and within a year the band had split, though not for good.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Stop Start on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ink and Paper | 3 | #14 | – | 1986–1989 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.