Year/Genre/City: 1988, Pop Rock, San Francisco, CA
Matrix #: OV 41622
Condition: EX, sounds great; looks great
Cultural Facts:
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Media Narrative: Post–Sports pivot—critics framed it as “can they escape the hits machine?” while the band tried to broaden the public picture.
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Studio Lore: Cut in their home-base orbit with a band-first workflow—tight rehearsals, then clean takes, not a patchwork of outside writers.
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Scene Ecology: Built from Bay Area bar-band circuits (Clover years) into MTV-era mainstream—an unusually linear path from clubs to arenas.
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