Editing Colourbox (section)

==Career==
Following their debut single "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" in late 1982 (and a 1983 reworking of the tracks by new producer Mick Glossop, still featuring Currie on vocals), Currie was replaced by Lorita Grahame.<ref name="Larkin80">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2003|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-969-9|page=123}}</ref> A four-track [[mini-album]] simply titled ''[[Colourbox (1983 album)|Colourbox]]'' was released in November 1983, displaying the band's fledgling experimental sound.<ref name="Larkin80"/> After a handful of singles, Colourbox's first [[Colourbox (1985 album)|full-length studio album]] — also self-titled — followed in August 1985, which further refined the band's diverse palette, mixing sample-splattered power-punk instrumentals with elegiac piano pieces ("Just Give 'em Whiskey" and "Sleepwalker" respectively), commercial pop ("The Moon Is Blue" and "Suspicion") and more reggae and soul covers ([[U-Roy]]'s "Say You" and [[The Supremes]]' "[[You Keep Me Hangin' On|You Keep Me Hanging On]]").<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r4343 |last=Raggett |first=Ned |title=Colourbox (1985) – Colourbox}}.</ref> It was to remain the band's only full-length album.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Colourbox |magazine=[[Trouser Press]] |last=Gethers |first=Altricia |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/colourbox/}}</ref>

In 1986, the band issued two completely different singles simultaneously on the same day. One was an [[instrumental]] initially intended as a [[FIFA World Cup]] anthem of that year ("The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme").<ref name="Larkin80"/><ref name="Pitchfork"/> The other, a cover of [[Jacob Miller (musician)|Jacob Miller]]'s "[[King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (song)#"Baby I Love You So"|Baby I Love You So]]", featured Lorita Grahame on vocals.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=772AV6upth4C&pg=PA36 |title=Singles – Stealing the show |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |date=September 1986 |last=Leland |first=John |page=36}}</ref> The same year, 4AD issued the 1983 mini-LP on CD for the first time, with the 12" versions of both of these singles added, along with the B-side "Looks Like We're Shy One Horse / Shoot Out" and the previous non-album single "Breakdown".

"Baby I Love You So" was ranked number 12 by ''[[NME|New Musical Express]]'' on [[NME Single of the Year|their critics' list of the best singles]] of 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 1986 |title=NME's best albums and tracks of 1986 |url=https://www.nme.com/features/1986-2-1045387 |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=New Musical Express}}</ref>

The band had an international [[hit record|hit]] in 1987 with "[[Pump Up the Volume (song)|Pump Up the Volume]]", a collaboration with [[A.R. Kane]] under the name [[MARRS]].<ref name="Larkin80"/> The song was notable for being constructed almost entirely from [[sampling (music)|samples]] of other records, a novelty for a popular record at that time, though Colourbox themselves had been using sampling extensively since their 1983 mini-album. The pressures of sudden success and the long-running litigation caused by the use of samples resulted in the band never recording as Colourbox again.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wink |first=Roger |date=2016-07-15 |title=R.I.P. Steve Young of Colourbox and M/A/R/R/S |url=https://www.noise11.com/news/r-i-p-steve-young-of-colourbox-and-marrs-20160715 |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=Noise11.com}}</ref>