Two Wheels Good
Softening the thorny style of their debut,Swoon, for this 1985 follow-up, Prefab Sprout committed one of the decade's most profound pop moments with "When Love Breaks Down." A sad testament to "the wrecks who leave their hearts," it's anything but wistful. That sort of multileveled smarts didn't help the group with U.S. radio programmers, despiteTwo Wheels Good's nearly devotional approach to lushness of melody and production. Even better was to come in the form of 1990'sJordan: The Comeback.--Rickey Wright