Ashley's take on, well, everything
His first solo single from 1989. What an astonishing vocal on the track. IMO he is the best singer of his generation by a long distance. Not many people can take a Sinatra song and make it their own, but this is def Norris Green 1-0 Hoboken
For me Jack were probably the best kept secret of the mid 90s. Coming on like a Divine Comedy (without the schoolboy humour) or My Life Story (minus the camp) they made three great albums all of which feature wonderfully dramatic songs soaked in strings.
The first album Pioneer Soundtracks, from which the tune stems from, delivers just one classic after another, but for me it is album two that sets them apart from all their peers. The Jazz Age is an astonishingly great album, in many ways every bit as good as the artists (Scott Walker, Echo and The Bunnymen) whose sound Jack were trying to replicate.
Things dipped on the third album and they split up soon after with lead singer Anthony Reynolds going solo and penning a book on Scott Walker http://popjunkietv.com/2009/05/06/two-walker-brothers-biographies-imminent/ and a few other members ending up in the wonderful mid noughties band The Boyfriends http://www.myspace.com/myboyfriendsback
It is still quite incredible how overlooked they were and still are
