The Modern Bop by Mondo Rock

The Modern Bop, Mondo Rock's fourth studio album, hit the racks on Polydor in March 1984 and climbed to number 5 on the Kent Music Report, with Ross Wilson's post-Daddy Cool outfit still riding high. By now the band ran on two engines: Wilson, the singer-songwriter who'd founded it, and guitarist Eric McCusker, who'd come aboard in 1980 and turned into a hit machine alongside him, with James Black still on keyboards.

John L Sayers produced, and the record goes for the smart, sleek pop rock the band had been honing through endless touring: crisp guitars, keyboards with a bit of chrome on them, grown-up songs that still move. Rolling Stone reckoned it finally nailed the goal the band kept talking about, adult music that refused to go soft. "Come Said the Boy" was the big one, climbing to number two in Australia that year.

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