A.R. Kane – When You're Sad

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Image	,	–			In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory	Version Details	Data Quality
	When You're Sad 12", 45 RPM	One Little Indian – 12-TP-2	UK	1986	UK — 1986	Recently Edited
	When You're Sad 12", Single, White Label	One Little Indian – 12TP2	UK	1986	UK — 1986	New Submission

Iprocetyl_Girl May 27, 2016
referencing When You're Sad (12", 45 RPM) 12-TP-2

When did the name of track B2 change to "Haunting"?? I've always known it as "So Far Away" and indeed, that is what it says on my copy of this LP...
restless Feb 29, 2012
Edited 4 years ago

referencing When You're Sad (12", 45 RPM) 12-TP-2

AR Kane were always far more hybrid than the strict 'shoegaze' or 'dreampop' (a term they contributed creating) tags they were labelled into (although being also part of MARRS, hence contributing launching the acid house craze in the UK).
Their noisy candypop had hints of free-jazz with blurred sexual singing a la Jimi Hendrix. So yes this first single (and basically most of their output until 1990) has aged now production-wise (especially the metallic, proto-industrial drums, a little too hammering) but it is still a visionary and influential piece of post-JAMC pop music, announcing all the My Bloody Valentines, Ride, Boo Radleys, Chapterhouse etc of the years to follow (not mentioning the multiple revivals and 'inspired by' that you can hear in many adventurous pop productions until this day).