Despite the fact that he's made a series of often brilliant records – with the woefully underappreciated Jules and the Polar Bears back in the New Wave days and on his own in the Eighties – Jules Shear is still perhaps best known as the songwriter behind Cyndi Lauper's "All Through the Night" and the Bangles' "If She Knew What She Wants."

Big Boss Sounds may just be the record to change...