What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



After hearing this Aussie bands debut last week, I was expecting more from this. That first one was covers, which I'm never big on. Figured this one, being original material, had to come out better. If not for the 3 instrumentals and the one duplicate live track, it would have received a passing grade. That sunk it. This is the groups third album. It came out no better than the debut. Single of Country Girl was bad. And I'm not using that double speak stuff, where bad means good. Only cover here that I know of is Let The Four Winds Blow (Fats Domino) which is credible. Best is probably the leadoff of Have It Your Own Sweet Way. I love the squeezebox that is prominent in the bands work and vocalist Joe Camilleri delivers in the Costello style, but bottom line is just weak material. No youtube clips available for this album.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - All You Need

Best Track - Have It Your Own Sweet Way

You can love me
Take me down
Walk all over me
You can leave me
Wake this town
Or bow out gracefully
Say what it is when it has to be
Have it your own sweet way
Break all the rules that I must obey
Have it your own sweet way
Tell this poor fool if it’s night or day
You can tease me
Make a time
I’ll suffer for your crime
You can cheat me
Tell those lies
Or take me by surprise
Step out the door in your best disguise
Keepin’ me tied to the spot
Bringin’ me down with one shot
Cuttin’ me loose on the sea
Tell me it’s liberty
Say what is is when it has to be

1) Have It Your Own Sweet Way **
2) Country Girls *
3) Sons Of The Sea **
4) All You Need *
5) No Man's Land **
6) A Place In The World **
7) Gypsy Heart **
8) The Final Touch *
9) Hoe Down Blues *
10) Let The Four Winds Blow **
11) Country Girls *

3's - 0
2's - 6
1's - 5

Grade - 1.6

so many albums, so little time