The Wrong People (featured in Classic Lost Albums article)

FURNITURE
The Wrong People
(Stiff 1986)

'THE WRONG People' appeared in 1986 just as Furnituremania swept the provinces. Well, soon after the lithe peculiarity known as 'Brilliant Mind' had squirmed its way into the Top 20, anyway.

This album That Should Have Been Huge was chock-full of frisky rhythms, perverted guitar licks and the kind of emotional lyrical openness which terrified passing psychiatrists. Oh, and there were some jazzy bits as well. Songs about shagging swooned alo[ngside] songs about, erm, not shag[ging], people like Judy having lov[ely] nervous breakdowns.

'The Wrong People' was intelligent, eccentric, and even better, accurate. It bombed in relative terms because Stiff Records stiffed five minutes befo[re] the release date and ZTT came to the financial rescue, eventually fulfilled the 30,000 advance orde[r] and promptly deleted the album. Right. Four years on, 'Food Sex [&] Paranoia' was to get a similarly helpful push towards obscurity and Furniture ended up in that great second hand warehouse sale in the sky after a farewell appearance at last year's Reading Fest. Oh arse.

Simon Williams