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THE CUTTING EDGE

Standard-brand pop-rock was/is/will be the norm, so why not cast a journalistic eye on its practitioners from time to time? Besides, Cutting Crew are much better at this sort of stuff—melodic, guitar-driven poprock and aching ballads—than the similarly styled Glass Tiger, and they didn’t even need Bryan Adams on backup vocals to fly up the charts.

September 1, 1987
Jim Feldman

THE CUTTING EDGE

Standard-brand pop-rock was/is/will be the norm, so why not cast a journalistic eye on its practitioners from time to time? Besides, Cutting Crew are much better at this sort of stuff—melodic, guitar-driven poprock and aching ballads—than the similarly styled Glass Tiger, and they didn’t even need Bryan Adams on backup vocals to fly up the charts. Plus, at the time of this interview, the Crew in question were just a few weeks away from topping the charts with the mainstream “(I Just) Died In Your Arms.”

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