Where Are All The Nice Girls Gone (Original Album and Rare Extra Tracks) (1980)

"Dit debuut was een van de topreleases op popgebied, begin jaren '80. Dat niveau hebben leider Clive Gregson en zijn kornuiten daarna nooit meer gehaald." (Heaven) "Gregson was one of the dozens of singer/songwriters who saw his chance for reaching a larger audience when the New Wave scene kicked into gear in the late '70s (there's little arguing that it raised the bar for rock songwriting at a time when such things were sorely needed), and this first album from his group Any Trouble immediately established him as a pop tunesmith of uncommon talent. As a decidedly non-heartthrob looking guy with glasses who recorded for Stiff Records, Gregson was initially tagged as an Elvis Costello rip-off. But heard today, the album sounds a bit more like an early Joe Jackson record, with its dry-as-dust production, hyperactive basslines (courtesy Phil Barnes) pushed up front in the mix, and Gregson's fluid vocals, which don't snarl so much as they beg, insinuate, or comment on the passing parade." (M. Deming, Allmusic)