 
Their debut album recorded by David Kahne in the winter of 1995 for Blue
Thumb/MCA records. This record plays as a kind of greatest hits of all
Mike’s best songs written from 1990 to 1996. Those were brutal years
for Mike and his family. His first wife Kim became paralyzed and eventually
died from cancer. He brought all his anger and sadness to New York City
and hammered it into the oblique and personal lyrics that festoon this
album: Imagery that conjures up a secret darkness in these catchy and
tight pop song gems. “The whole record is about Kim. I always write
about the people I love. I just hid it all behind metaphor.”
Pete Donnelly was brought in to play bass. The album was recorded on a
vintage 16 Track tape machine that gives the album that creamy tape compression
sound. “”David has a way of recording that was new to me.
He goes for one or two takes then he edits them. I don’t’
think I ever punched anything in while working with David. I’ve
been working that way ever since”
After the recording was finished the album was mixed and re-mixed several
times and a potential single pulled and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Lots
of money was spent. Sadly, Blue Thumb went belly up (“it wasn’t
our fault!”) and the Candy Butchers debut album was never released.
“Our manager shopped the finished record around but we had amassed
such a debt from all the re-mixing (a decision made by the powers that
had been) nobody wanted to sign us cause they’d be taking on all
this debt. It was crazy. I was sitting on this record that was basically
my life’s work up to that point. Knowing in the back of my mind
it would never be released.” (GMMR is working to buy back the rights
to this eponymous debut with hopes of releasing it on vinyl)
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