Almost the b-side. Hmm.
Perfect album. All I can say about Setting Sons is it's a more obscure play on words than All Mod Cons or Sound Affects. "Smithers Jones", "Wasteland", "Thick As Thieves", "Eton Rifles", "Saturday's Kids", "Burning Sky"... the musicianship is matched by the songwriting and the production, without losing any of the toothiness of the earlier recordings.
Wikipedia tells me that The Cure's Three Imaginary Boys was recorded using Rick Buckler's drumkit, because they were sneaking into the studio The Jam were using for Setting Sons. And there are some parallels. Three Imaginary Boys would have been a fitting title for the original concept of Settings Sons, about three friends from school diverging in thought politically as they make their way in the world. And both albums get kind of pulled apart for release domestically in Canada and the U.S.
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