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| No other band whacks a massive smile on my face like The Wildhearts. I don’t know why exactly, but a good Wildhearts song gets me jigging like I’ve got ants in my pants and fighting an all-but-irresistable urge to jump up and down waving my hands in the air. I am therefore pleased to report that this album is packed full of very good Wildhearts songs. |
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Chief songwriter Ginger always had a knack for combining instantly memorable melodies and huge choruses with stonking great gonzo-metal riffathons, but the band’s last two albums seemed to abandon this format — first for utterly distorted fucked-upness and then for workmanlike pop-punk. This time around however, opener ‘Rooting for the Bad Guy’ is nine minutes long and does everything you could really want from a rock song: huge riffs, melodies, time changes, vocal harmonies, guitar solos and then more riffs and another chorus. A chorus about crucifying Tweety Pie, so extra rock marks there. Fucking bird.
And it just gets better from there, really. ‘The New Flesh’ and ‘Bi-Polar Baby’ are all pogosome potential chart-bothering glory, ‘Slaughtered Authors’ and ‘The Hard Way’ pick up where ‘Rooting for the Bad Guy’ left off and ‘Destroy All Monsters’ is an evil, raging beast of a riff-fest with a verse that shouldn’t work but does.
The production throughout makes the band sound more alive and more organic than they ever have before, and the current line-up of Ginger, Ritch Battersby, CJ and new bassist Scott Sorry (of Amen ‘fame’) works a treat. The more I listen the more I think that this is the definitive Wildhearts album, which is high praise indeed considering their pedigree, not to mention a bit of a surprise for longtime fans. The only reason this doesn’t get a 10 is because ‘She’s All That’ is comparatively rubbish and ‘The Sweetest Thing’ has a duff ‘na na na na na’ section. And it pisses me off when people don’t give their albums names. |
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| Dan Snowdon - 9/10 |
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Name:
Tom
| Date:
30/04/07 | Reply
So after years of fucking about and underachieving, finally we see a return to form. Dan has actually written a new review. Welcome back, Dan!
I can only assume your next review will be of the Guns n' Roses album.
But seriously for a minute. I think I might actually lift my "don't go back, the Wildhearts will only disappoint you" embargo and give this album a shot. The album cover's promising to start with. But if it turns out to be crap, Dan, I'm not letting you review that Guns n' Roses album.
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Name:
Dan
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30/04/07 | Reply
Dammit Tom, I can't be responsible for breaking your heart again. Don't go back if you don't think you could take it, and especially don't hold it against me if things don't work out.
That said, I do think this is way better than anything they've done in years.
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Name:
Will
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16/05/07 | Reply
Good call on this one midgetboy
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Name:
dan
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16/05/07 | Reply
holy thankyous beardman! to the beardmobile!
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Name:
Dan
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21/05/07 | Reply
hmm, ginger doesn't half look like a munter on the front of this one. what do you think of it tom?
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Name:
Not given
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28/06/07 | Reply
why aren't more people talking about this when it's fucking ace? this country doesn't deserve rock of this calibre.
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