All Four One

All Four One is the RIAA Gold-certified third album by new wave band The Motels, released in 1982. It features the band's breakout Top 10 smash "Only the Lonely", and its follow-up hit "Take The L". Both songs were assisted by popular MTV music videos.

Background and writing

After the mild success of Careful, The Motels went back into the studio in early 1981 to record their third album with producer Val Garay. The band at this time consisted of Martha Davis on vocals and guitar, Tim McGovern on lead guitar, Marty Jourard on keyboards, Michael Goodroe on bass and Brian Glascock on drums.

Wanting to stretch the limits as to what they could do artistically and musically, the band recorded some of its darkest and heaviest music to date. McGovern, Davis' boyfriend at the time, clashed with Garay in the studio, and ended up de facto producer and arranger for the album, which was titled Apocalypso. Martha Davis considers this period "the last time the Motels were uninhibited, wild, and not worried about our place on the charts."