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THE WINDBREAKERS - A DIFFERENT SORT...(1987)

After the excellent "Run" album (1986), Lee and Sutliff parted ways. While Bobby Sutliff released the wonderful "Only Ghosts Remain", Lee kept the Windbreakers name for the equally worthy "A Different Sort...", which he co-produced with Everett. The album offers another striking set of unsettling lyrics, powerful, inventive playing and production, and emotional singing. From the bells on "Knowing Me" through the affecting piano on "We Never Understand" to the pained roughness of "Forget Again," Lee demonstrates his multifarious talents and abundant creativity. Lee and Sutliff got back together in 1989 for the confident-sounding, smoothly crafted "At Home With Bobby and Tim". (Trouser Press)

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Songs
Knowing Me / Fit In / You Closed Your Eyes / Better Left Unsaid / So Far Away /A Different Sort ... / So Much / We Never Understand / Forget Again / Any Longer