"To Each..." is my favourite ACR album, if you're into this vein of 80's, UK funky discord give a listen to 23 Skidoo, 400 Blows, Finitribe, APB, Fire Engines, Josef K, Mackenzies, Pop Group, Blurt, Stump, Slab, Yargo, Tackhead, Mark Stewart & Mafia, Section 25, Rip Rig and Panic, Shriekback...
ACR must be one of the best bands of their time, with the exception that they made music that even anticipated the future that we have not yet heard. The post punk after the post punk that has not yet arrived.
They emerged at exactly the same time in Manchester. They toured together & Simon used to stand in with JD for Ian when he was ill. The resemblance is indeed uncanny but more a product of the city at that time than them influencing each other. Take a look at pictures of Hulme or Salford in the late 70s and you’ll see where that sound comes from.
