What have we let ourselves in for now?''Įvery week, Album of the Week Club listens to and discusses the album in question, votes on how good it is, and publishes our findings, with the aim of giving people reliable reviews and the wider rock community the chance to contribute. We all walked out scratching our heads, going: 'What the fuck just happened there?' That’s when Phil goes: 'Fuck these producers, I’ll produce the next one.' I went: 'Oh shit. 'And Nevison was like: 'Could you turn it down a little bit more?' And the volume kept going down and down, to where the songs just didn’t have that drive any longer. But when we got into the studio, Ron Nevison, the producer, kept saying: 'Just turn the guitars down a little.' Robbo and I would look at each other and go: 'This is our first album, and this guy’s just worked with Led Zeppelin. 'The rehearsals for that album were exactly the same way as when I went down and jammed with them,' Gorham told us.
Both the Cream-like blues rocker Sha-La-La and the slow-burning ballad Still In Love With You became enduring live favourites. Nightlife is one of the band’s most accomplished early albums an eclectic collection of bruising boogie rockers and slower, more soulful songs like the tender She Knows, Showdown and the rainy title song.
