I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
I've always believed that you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it and regardless of the press and the hype - that the music wins.
I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.