She’s A Windup

A-Side: She’s A Windup
B-Side: Hi-Rise

Record label: United Artists UP 36304
Producer: Nick Lowe

Released: 02/09/77

Living proof that the old dogs (even without Wilko) can still wreak a bit of slaughter of their own, this is a tuff, gruff 100 mph putdown of the kind of chick who is called, in common parlance, a prick-tease. Nick Lowe has captured maximum R&B in the 7-inch grooves and the whole deal should settle any doubts about their new wave credibility.

The flip gives you “Hi-Rise” which is a Booker T and MG-ish. Connoisseurs of useless information will want to know that scratched into the run-out grooves are ‘Good luck with the exams’. What can it mean? (Sounds, 17/09/77)

A competent but hardly vintage single from the lords of R&B madness. “Windup” is getting the airplay, while “Hi-Rise” is an average instrumental. (Melody Maker, 17/09/77)