Eno began simply, adding percussion and other elements to the group's own constructs on 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food (ironically, what propelled the album to sell half a million copies was not its visionary originality but a straightforward hit cover version of Al Green's "Take Me to the River").
Martini tells me that he thought Stone's behaviour was all somehow linked to the commercial failure of the band's 1967 debut album, A Whole New Thing, a notably different-sounding record to any of its successors: afterwards, his label insisted he came up with a straightforward hit, which he did, in the shape of Dance to the Music.
iJailbreak is fairly straightforward — hit one button and it should just do its business.
The effect is pretty straightforward: hit a thumbs up and Pandora will try to play more music that sounds like the song you're listening to, thumbs down and Pandora will immediately jump to the next song and send a minor electric shock to CTO Tom Conrad.
The rules here are pretty straightforward: Hit the wick and extinguish the flame to win the contest.
On one of Painting With's most straightforward glucose hits, On Delay, Portner and Lennox chant in unison, in glorious half-speed: "I hear it doubly clear!" Indeed, as these 12 tracks whip by, you can actually make out some lyrics – a historic challenge of AnCo's canon.
Maybe, despite the intrigue, the drama, the gossip, the razzmatazz and ceremony, it boils down to something far more straightforward: golfers hitting golf shots and holing putts.
That straightforward fact hit me like a thousand bricks of "duh".
Seemingly more straightforward is Greatest Hits, a peppy break-up song that uses attention-grabbing mentions of Roxy Music and Kinks albums as camouflage for the emotional wrench in the chorus.
To say any more about the reasons for 47's arrival would be to spoil a chapter in the game that really moves its story onwards with no little force – while each mission seems like a standalone operation, it's clear even from the ending of the Paris contract that something massively shady is going on, something beyond a straightforward series of hits.
