recorded début album Can’t Stand the Rezillos

At Sire’s suggestion the band recorded their début album Can’t Stand the Rezillos in February 1978 at the newly built Power Station studio in New York City , owned by the producer of several of Sire’s punk and new wave acts, Tony Bongiovi . Bongiovi was originally scheduled to produce the whole of the album, but illness meant he had to hand over production duties to his assistant Lance Quinn and his engineer Bob Clearmountain for much of the album’s recording. The album featured re-recorded versions of “Can’t Stand My Baby”, “(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures” and “Flying Saucer Attack”. Its release was then delayed for three months while Sire waited for their distribution deal with Phonogram Records to run out so that they could switch to Warner Bros. Records , who had recently acquired the Sire label. This soured the group’s relationship with the record label, as they felt they were losing the momentum they had built up and twice had to cancel a planned tour. Bass player William Mysterious left the Rezillos, frustrated at the lack of activity, and the band brought in Simon Templar (real name Simon Bloomfield) to replace him. A third single was released to coincide with the album, a re-recorded version of the album track “Top of the Pops” with Templar on bass, as opposed to the album version which featured Mysterious.