Stephen Street

Come to find out, when researching, one of the Cranberries' biggest influences was the Smiths.

And Stephen Street, he produced Morrissey's debut album, Viva Hate.

So that kind of, how that all ties back in right there.

Their first big hit, Linger, peaked at number three in Ireland, reached number eight in the U.S. And again, that was the first tune that I heard from them.

So yeah, this song fits perfectly Perfectly in that world.

And yeah, Dolores and the Cranberries might say, and I'm sure it's true that both the song itself, just being a powerful song and playing live a lot, went into the accounting of that.

But I would argue all day that Stephen Street, the producer, he was definitely referencing the popular grunge and alternative albums at the time and finding the right tones.

I would think so.

Yeah.

Just being me and being the guitarist and, you know, producing the records with Stephen Street and all of that.

So, uh, it was very complicated, that, s- but that's part of it, of it being too much to ask-

Mm-hmm

So yeah, the process of taking what you've recorded, working with those audio tracks to have them work and sound cohesive, and then add possibly a heightened sense of realism or something that isn't real at all.

If you go and listen to anything by Stephen Street like the Smiths or the Cranberries and you really listen I find you can hear all the the real instruments in there.

I don't know how he does it because I've looked it up and it's all very standard reverbs that he uses but he creates this world around the around the musicians with with the reverb that is a little bit otherworldly he got the band to play in such a way as well and he's doing clever tricks to trigger those reverbs all part of mixing and then something like that Chris Stapleton tune basically is just a bit more of a HD polished version of what was recorded ready for being released And the room sound is maybe just enhanced a little bit.

Chris Sablin might have tailed off at the end of a line.

This was on their second and final release, Walk On, on Chrysalis Records from 1986.

This album marked 1010's only major label release, and while it didn't make much of an impact, the album is notable for its producer, that would be Stephen Street.

After producing this album for 1010, Street went on to produce major records by the Smiths, the Darudy Column, and Blurr.

All right, well, let's hear some more music from Richmond, Virginia.

And so I've put together a book of the best of those pictures, which shows basically a bunch of spotty, fresh-faced kids doing all this kind of pop star stuff for the first time.

First time on a tour bus, first North American tour, first time in Japan, first time in the studio with Stephen Street.

The first time you do these things is the most exciting time.

So it captures all of us kind of trepidation and thrills in equal measure.