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Track: We Are Detective
Artist: Thompson Twins
Album: Quick Step and Side Kick (Deluxe Edition)

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Name: Thompson Twins
Spotify Genres: new wave, synthpop
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Thompson Twins (named after the detectives Thomson and Thompson in the Tintin comics) was formed in 1977 in Sheffield by [a=Tom Bailey] and guitarists [a=John Roog] and [a=Peter Dodd], with drummer [a=Chris Bell (3)] joining soon afterwards after some line-up changes. They arrived in London and self-released their debut single [url=http://www.discogs.com/Thompson-Twins-Squares-And-Triangles/release/2014184]"Squares And Triangles"[/url] in 1980. After their 1981 debut album, they recruited [a=The Soft Boys]'s bassist [a=Matthew Seligman], New Zealand saxophonist [a=Alannah Currie], and percussionist [a=Joe Leeway], forming a septet. After the group completed their second album, "Set", Dodd and Roog left to form the short lived act [a=Big View]. Seligman also left the group to pursue a career as a session musician (for [a=The Waterboys], [a=David Bowie] etc.). As a trio, Thompson Twins reached their commercial peak with their [url=http://www.discogs.com/Thompson-Twins-Into-The-Gap/release/56303]"Into The Gap"[/url] album and the five singles that it spawned, managing to conquer the American market in the process. Joe Leeway went solo in May 1986 and the group continued as a duo, releasing three more albums. The band released eight albums in total. In 1993, Bailey and Currie started the electronic project [a=Babble].

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Release: Thompson Twins - We Are Detective
Year: 1983
Genres: Electronic, Pop
Styles: New Wave, Synth-pop

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LYRICS

Somebody's watching me
And now I'm nervous
And I shouldn't be
Somebody's got their eye on me
Perhaps I should invite him up for tea?
We saw him smoking by the newspaper stand
There's something odd about his Gloved left hand
Saw him again inside the old cafe
He makes us tense
We wish he'd go away


We are detective
We are select
We are detective
Come to collect.


Somebody's after me
He left his footprints by the garden tree
Last night when I got home
I got the feeling I was not alone!
Someone is on our tail
we think they're opening up our morning mail
And now each time the telephone rings,
We think of frightening thing.

We are detective
We are select
We are detective
Come to collect.

We dress up in disguise
To get away from all those prying eyes
Our friends all think we're mad
But we know better
'cause the spy is bad!

We are detective
We are select
We are detective
Come to collect.