![]() ![]() ![]() Then came another Sarah landmark, You Should All Be Murdered, a list of people that Harvey thought, on balance, the world would be better off without. The follow-up, What's Happened?, contained two songs recorded at home on a 4-track, because they sounded better than the studio versions, and three songs punctuated with question marks, because Harvey wanted to know what the answer was. ASD's first "proper" single, I'm In Love With A Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist – 99 seconds of unrequited love sighed through a shower of teardrops disguised as guitars – became an instant classic. A flurry of handclaps and fuzzed-up caterwauling guitar pressed on a piece of plastic so flimsy it would, according to the press release, self-destruct after six plays – immortalising itself in so doing as the perfect pop artefact – it received Single of the Week accolades in both NME and Melody Maker, possibly the lightest object ever to do so. Anorak City was – obviously – originally released as a five-and-three-quarter-inch flexidisc, tucked inside the first Sarah Records fanzine. Another Sunny Day released five singles on Sarah Records, and all are collected here, along with Anorak City, a tongue-in-cheek (sadly, not everyone realised this.) critique of the post-C86 world of flowery skirts and bowl cuts with which Harvey was less than enamoured, despite the fact that everyone kept telilng him he totally was (see previous bracket). ![]()
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