Track of The Day: Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me (Virgin)

If there’s a band that’s given me more earworms than Magazine then I haven’t met it yet. Built around Devoto’s uber grandiose, emphatic, spoken word singing and outstanding musicianship; Barry Adamson on bass, John McGeoch on guitar, Dave Formula on keyboards and Martin Jackson on drums, they should have been much bigger. Listening to a track like this it’s easy to see why Devoto left Buzzcocks. The elevated pop of Magazine with its often unsettling overtones, surreal imagery and symphonic scope couldn’t be more different than Buzzcocks boy meets girl power pop, even though they occasionally shared riffs, (‘Lipstick’/’Shot By Both Sides’), and design (Linder’s). This track showcases everybody’s talents, but it’s probably McGeoch’s guitar that it’s mostly remembered for.