Vermillion by The Three O'Clock

Vermillion was the Three O'Clock's fourth album and their last, released in 1988 on Prince's Paisley Park Records, a fitting home for the band whose singer and bassist Michael Quercio had coined the name "Paisley Underground" for the Los Angeles scene they came out of. Ian Ritchie produced it, and Jason Falkner came aboard on guitar.

The label boss chipped in, too: Prince wrote "Neon Telephone", with Wendy and Lisa adding their voices. The record leans hard toward clean, bright pop, with psychedelic colors, a little folk harp and soft harmonies worked in, and the Ottawa Citizen admired the band's restraint in never letting the paisley swallow the tune. Instead of a new beginning on a star's label, it turned out to be the band's closing statement.

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