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Dalis Car
Biography
Dali's Car was doomed almost from the start. A seemingly good idea when it was first suggested to former Bauhaus vocalist/lyricist Pete Murphy that he collaborate with ex-Japan bassist/composer Mick Karn, the group nearly self-destructed before it was disbanded. Their sole album, The Waking Hour, released in 1984, came in more than thirty thousand dollars (20,000 pounds) over the sixty thousand dollar (40,000 pounds) budget given them by Virgin and Beggars Banquet. A commercial failure, the album produced one equally disappointing single, "The Judgement Is The Mirror".



Although things seemed fine when Murphy and Karn began their collaboration. Initially working with four track tapes that they sent back and forth, they wrote most of the songs before they came together in the studio. Once there, they continued to clash. When the project was completed, neither wanted to work together again. "It was a particularly difficult project," Karn said in a late-1990s interview. "We were two very different people." ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide
Selected Discography