| |
|
Song 1: La Belle Et La Bete: This begins with a reasonably stylish rockabilly riff, like the Guana Batz, say, or King Kurt, and lyrics about cocaine flights of fancy. But it's really not as interesting as I'm making it sound.
Song 2: Fuck Forever: This, in a way that won't be revisited for quite a while, at least not until song twelve, is quite a toe-tapper, like Suede meets The Clash - I feel slightly sick just for having written that, but, and I think we're approaching the essential problem with this record here, it is terribly badly produced. It's hard not to picture Mick Jones leering and drunk behind the mixing desk, like some sort of malevolent Mr Punch, actively attempting to destroy Pete's career.
Which would go some way towards explaining
Song 3: A Rebours: I can't think of anything to say about this, really. If you've read the book, and enjoyed it, you're possibly in for a disappointment.
Song 4: The 32nd Of December: This seems to reference a wild night out that Pete had with a few of his mates, which he can hardly bear to recall. It sounds a bit like a Smiths 'B' side. Unless I specifically say otherwise (and god knows, I will,) everything on Pete's new album sounds a bit like a Smiths 'B' side.
Song 5: Pipedown: The guitarist in Babyshambles should stop smoking crack. He should 'put his pipe down,' do you see? It sounds like sensible advice.
Song 6: Sticks And Stones: Should everyone involved with this track be taken off quietly into the woods near Epping Forest, or wherever's convenient, and shot in the head? I fear that they should.
Song 7: Killamangiro: I don't mean to sound as if I really hate this album, I'm still in Pete's corner, in fact I love Pete, but other people, not me though, might care to speculate as to what a feted red tops rock star is doing writing a song about killing some guy over the head of their cheque from the DHSS. Suffice it to say, though, that by the end of this song, I understood.
Song 8: 8 Dead Boys: I'd lost all will to live by this point, so I can't especially comment. After this though, I guess we're heading into reggae territory. Those of you out there who can still be afraid should be, very.
Song 9: In Love With A Feeling: In the meantime though, this goes by quite elegantly, until...
Song 10: Pentonville: Words pretty much fail me. This song is 'toasted' by the General, who is someone that Pete met when he was banged up in Pentonville prison for three days recently. And I mean fair enough, the General probably did help him out, inside, but it's all just so sordid, somehow?!? This is the album's nadir.
Song 11: What Katy Did Next: To be fair though, Pete has pulled Kate Moss.
Song 12: Albion: This is Pete's state of the nation address. If everything else on the LP was as happening as this, and had been produced by anyone other than that clown from The Clash, it wouldn't be number 75 in the Woolworths chart, and sinking.
Song 13: Back From The Dead: This song is a disgrace.
Song 14: Loyalty Song: It's Ok.
Song 15: Up The Morning: Again, harmless enough.
Song 16: Merry Go Round: I hope everyone appreciates how difficult this has been for me. On any number of occasions, I felt like giving up (during the General's toasting sesh, I would, if I'd had a gun, have ended it all right there, that's how far out I was prepared to go, just for you guys.) |
|
|
