While I found each individual song to be good, indeed some very fine songs on the record, it's not an album I enjoyed listening through from start to finish.
It's not even that the songs are monotonous, because they're varied enough within the musical style. It felt like going out for a meal and having 5 courses of dessert.
But like I say, individually the songs are enjoyable.
"Like going out for a meal and having 5 courses of dessert" - yes, precisely what can be said about probably any "twee-pop" album ever recorded. But given how much some of these records from the 1990s / 2000s are appreciated in critical and cult circles, it's weird that The Honeycombs are still not given their dues in those same circles.
Howard Blaikley was two people not one. They wrote most of Dave Dee Dozy etc.’s hits.
Yes, of course. I actually wrote about that in the review of the first album.
While I found each individual song to be good, indeed some very fine songs on the record, it's not an album I enjoyed listening through from start to finish.
It's not even that the songs are monotonous, because they're varied enough within the musical style. It felt like going out for a meal and having 5 courses of dessert.
But like I say, individually the songs are enjoyable.
"Like going out for a meal and having 5 courses of dessert" - yes, precisely what can be said about probably any "twee-pop" album ever recorded. But given how much some of these records from the 1990s / 2000s are appreciated in critical and cult circles, it's weird that The Honeycombs are still not given their dues in those same circles.
As a diabetic I have to take it pretty seriously!