Any Trouble

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Second Choice 02:57 Tools
Playing Bogart 02:45 Tools
Yesterday's Love 02:53 Tools
Turning up the Heat 02:53 Tools
Girls Are Always Right 04:16 Tools
Nice Girls 04:08 Tools
Trouble With Love 04:21 Tools
Foolish Pride 03:34 Tools
Growing Up 03:34 Tools
Romance 04:01 Tools
The Hurt 02:54 Tools
Name Of The Game (Live) 04:01 Tools
No Idea 03:06 Tools
Honolulu 03:34 Tools
(Get You Off) The Hook 04:02 Tools
Open Fire 03:36 Tools
As Lovers Do 04:09 Tools
Walking In Chains 04:43 Tools
Dimming of the Day 04:09 Tools
Eastern Promise 03:36 Tools
To Be a King 04:55 Tools
Wheels In Motion 02:38 Tools
That Sound 03:13 Tools
Snapshot 03:14 Tools
Another Heartache 02:36 Tools
Power Cut 04:11 Tools
Follow That Car 02:43 Tools
The Sun Never Sets 05:03 Tools
Nice Girls (Sing B-Side Version) 04:18 Tools
I'll Be Your Man 00:00 Tools
Touch and Go 00:00 Tools
Working On The Night Shift (Live) 02:34 Tools
Learning How to Lose 02:35 Tools
Coming Of age 04:14 Tools
Baby Now That I've Found You 03:07 Tools
Working on the Night Shift 02:35 Tools
Old Before Your Time 04:08 Tools
Please Don't Stop 00:00 Tools
All The Time In The World 04:49 Tools
Glen Campbell 03:44 Tools
The Man I Used To Be 03:45 Tools
Learning The game 02:58 Tools
It Doesn't Mean A Thing 02:58 Tools
Great Big City 02:45 Tools
Party in the Streets 00:00 Tools
Tremolo 02:38 Tools
She's Not Like All The Other Girls 02:38 Tools
Wanderlust 02:58 Tools
What Do I Have To Do? 03:40 Tools
About To Fall 03:47 Tools
Man of the Moment 00:00 Tools
Nothing New 02:58 Tools
Ruby Red 03:35 Tools
Foundations 00:00 Tools
Lover's Moon 03:42 Tools
I Want You 03:39 Tools
Rocking Horse 00:00 Tools
the name of the game 04:02 Tools
Angel In Disguise 02:30 Tools
Time Does Not Heal 00:00 Tools
Lucky Day 03:33 Tools
Peyton's Place 02:45 Tools
I Just Don't Get It 00:00 Tools
Reverse 03:09 Tools
Better 03:18 Tools
Shake a Leg 03:18 Tools
Name Of The Game 04:10 Tools
Falling in Love With You Again 00:00 Tools
God's Little Joke 02:52 Tools
You'd Better Go Home 00:00 Tools
A Lot Like You 04:20 Tools
Lighthouse 03:56 Tools
Growing Up (Live) 02:52 Tools
Anybody Else 04:20 Tools
I Love the Way 04:20 Tools
Missed That Train 04:39 Tools
No Smoke Without Fire 04:39 Tools
Like A Man 05:12 Tools
Roll Round Here 04:20 Tools
Wrong End Of The Race 03:43 Tools
Kid Gloves 03:56 Tools
Follow That Car (Studio Version) 05:12 Tools
The Cheating Kind 04:05 Tools
Valentine 00:00 Tools
Annalee 00:00 Tools
Nothern Soul 04:20 Tools
Eleventh Hour 04:39 Tools
Northern Soul 00:00 Tools
Between The Black And The Grey 00:00 Tools
Nice Girls - Sing B-Side Version 04:39 Tools
Nice Girls [Sing B-Side Version]/Sing B-Side Version 04:39 Tools
Get You Off The Hook 03:10 Tools
Growing Up (Studio Version) 02:35 Tools
Working On The Night Shift - Live 02:35 Tools
Nice Girls (Live) 03:08 Tools
Second Choice - Live 03:04 Tools
Get You Off The Hook (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Hurt (Live) 03:07 Tools
Yesterday's Love (Live) 03:08 Tools
The Hurt - Live 03:08 Tools
Yesterday´s Love 00:00 Tools
Nice Girls - Live 03:51 Tools
Foolish Pride (Live) 03:53 Tools
Yesterday's Love - Live 02:57 Tools
Girls Are Always Right (Live) 03:53 Tools
Name Of The Game - Live 03:08 Tools
She'll belong to me 04:51 Tools
Growing Up - Live 02:53 Tools
Bible Belt 03:24 Tools
Get You Off The Hook - Live 03:01 Tools
Follow That Car (Live) 04:19 Tools
Foolish Pride - Live 03:53 Tools
The Name of the Game [Live] 00:00 Tools
Second Choice (Live) 03:03 Tools
Baby, Now That I've Found You 03:12 Tools
Yesterday's Love (Radio 1 Session, 27 Feb 1980) 03:03 Tools
Turning Up The Heat (Live) 03:39 Tools
Bricks And Mortar 02:33 Tools
Nice Girls (Single B-Side Version) 04:19 Tools
Nice Girls [Single B-Side Version] 04:19 Tools
Step by Step 04:19 Tools
Follow That Car - Live 02:41 Tools
Turning Up The Heat - Live 03:39 Tools
Human Heart 03:39 Tools
The Hurt (Demo) 03:12 Tools
Nice Girls (B-Side Version) 03:12 Tools
Yesterdays Love 03:03 Tools
03-Playing Bogart 04:51 Tools
Turning Up The Heat (Remix) 02:37 Tools
Working on the Night Shift [Live] 03:03 Tools
Second Choice (Radio 1 Session, 27 Feb 1980) 04:51 Tools
Girls Are Always Right (Radio 1 Session, 27 Feb 1980) 04:51 Tools
Open Fire ~ Treefrogdemon 00:00 Tools
Girls Are Always Right - Live 04:18 Tools
Does He Call Your Name 02:37 Tools
01-Yesterday's Love 03:12 Tools
Yesterday's Love (Bonus Track) 03:12 Tools
06-No Idea 04:51 Tools
07-Turning up the Heat 03:12 Tools
02-Second Choice 04:51 Tools
(get you off)the hook 04:51 Tools
What Do I Have To Do 03:12 Tools
10-Girls Are Always Right 03:12 Tools
7. To Be King 03:12 Tools
Cheating Kind 03:12 Tools
Hurt 03:12 Tools
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Any Trouble are a British rock band, originating from Crewe, England, best known for the early 1980s recordings. The band reformed in 2007. Any Trouble was an underappreciated bright spot on Stiff Records, a label which had no shortage of talented artists. Bandleader Clive Gregson's appearance, hardened love songs, and vocal style may have led to comparisons to Elvis Costello, but they were no second-rate rip-off -- each of their four albums revealed a songwriter of unique talent and a more-than-capable band to execute the songs. Manchester-native Gregson formed the original band in 1975 while attending teaching school in Crewe, taking the group's name from a misquote from the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles. After a brief moment as a folky trio with singer Tom Jackson, by 1976 Any Trouble changed to a four-piece rock group, speeding up their repertoire in response to the punk movement -- by this point the lineup was Gregson (vocals/guitar), Chris Parks (guitar), Phil Barnes (bass), and Mel Harley (drums). They built a strong following playing the pub circuit and released their own single, catching the attention of Radio One's John Peel, who quickly took the band and played the song on his show. This exposure started a small-scale bidding war from several labels. By 1980, the group signed with Stiff Records. John Wood , a renowned producer (Nick Drake, John Martyn, Richard Thompson) who had recently produced Squeeze, was hired to produce Any Trouble's first album. Where Are All the Nice Girls? which had all the makings of a new wave classic, was met with some rave reviews but failed to rack up the big sales that were expected of it. After the record failed commercially, Stiff suggested that Gregson drop the band and redefine himself as a solo artist a la Elvis Costello - Buddy Gregson. Gregson declined, deciding instead to replace the band's drummer Harley, with the more capable Martin Hughes . They began work on the follow-up immediately. Wheels in Motion (1981), while certainly more accomplished, lacked the spark of the first album and the record simply didn't catch on in the U.K. Any Trouble took a stab at Stateside success with a small promotional tour. Halfway through the tour, the band heard by word-of-mouth that they had been dropped by Stiff and were left stranded in America. Eventually they found their way back, but the stress of the situation broke up the band temporarily -- for about 18 months. Martin Hughes departed and was replaced by Andy Ebsworth and Steve Gurl was added on keyboards. Chris Parks left shortly thereafter. Essentially a new band, the four-piece recorded Any Trouble in 1983. Again, the same story -- should've been a hit, somehow overlooked. Gregson, knowing the band couldn't last much longer, talked EMI into letting them do a double album. As a parting shot, Gregson and company stretched out for Wrong End of the Race , a sprawling album that allowed them to show their diversity and influences over 25 tracks of new originals, remakes of earlier Any Trouble songs, and a few covers. In America, the album was distilled down to a single record. "Baby Now That I Found You" saw some airplay on MTV; the reviews were good, but the band's cult status didn't change. In 1984, the band played their last gig and called it quits. Gregson went on to a distinguished, though still underappreciated, career both as a solo artist and as a collaborator with Christine Collister. In 2007, following the re-release of several Any Trouble albums on CD, Clive Gregson, Chris Parks and Martin Hughes, plus Mark Griffiths on bass, re-formed to record a new album which was released on the re-born Stiff Records label on 10 September 2007. The album was titled Life in Reverse and featured thirteen new Gregson songs. It was produced by John Wood, and had unique artwork by the Stiff Records designer Tobbe Stuhre. The band played a reunion gig at the Jazz Cafe in London to celebrate the release. www.anytrouble.co.uk Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.