- Audio CD (10 April 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Wild Kingdom
- ASIN: B000FBHO1C
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 318,801 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Format:Audio CD
It seems such a shame that the UK has chosen to ignore Johnny Boy; in another age, their sweeping harmonies over Motownesque power pop backings would have been massive, and hopefully they will be again one day.
You Are The Generation... was one of my favourite songs of 2004 and the rest of the album lives up to its glittering standard. Wall Street swoops and swoons with a Black Box Recorder / Saint Etienne style vocal floating over a jazzy piano backing. Fifteen Minutes' upbeat synths recall early Pulp but the vocals are all 80s girl group at their peak. Livin' in the City is reminiscent of Black Grape; War on Want stays in baggy territory, but closer to Kasabian this time. The energy and drive on the first half of the album is infectious, the pop sensibilities perfect.
Springer drags you back into dreamy Luke Haines / Saint Etienne territory, with a dose of Stereolab thrown in, the cynicism of the lyrics somehow made palettable by the ethereal pop backing. College is back to the Motownesque pop and wall of sound of You Are the Generation..., this time with slightly psychedelic overtones, before the album crashes into Primal Scream territory (Xtrmntr period) with Formaldehyde. Bonnie Parker's 115th Dream merges the last 2 and begins to sound like a Happy Mondays remix, before the album closes with the blissed out instrumental jangle of Johnny Boy's Theme.
If you had to pigeon hole the album, I guess it would be somewhere around early 90s Madchester pop produced by Phil Spector, but that's unfair; this is perfect pop in its own right and deserves to be huge. If you like You Are The Generation, you'll love this; if you didn't, try it anyway.
You Are The Generation... was one of my favourite songs of 2004 and the rest of the album lives up to its glittering standard. Wall Street swoops and swoons with a Black Box Recorder / Saint Etienne style vocal floating over a jazzy piano backing. Fifteen Minutes' upbeat synths recall early Pulp but the vocals are all 80s girl group at their peak. Livin' in the City is reminiscent of Black Grape; War on Want stays in baggy territory, but closer to Kasabian this time. The energy and drive on the first half of the album is infectious, the pop sensibilities perfect.
Springer drags you back into dreamy Luke Haines / Saint Etienne territory, with a dose of Stereolab thrown in, the cynicism of the lyrics somehow made palettable by the ethereal pop backing. College is back to the Motownesque pop and wall of sound of You Are the Generation..., this time with slightly psychedelic overtones, before the album crashes into Primal Scream territory (Xtrmntr period) with Formaldehyde. Bonnie Parker's 115th Dream merges the last 2 and begins to sound like a Happy Mondays remix, before the album closes with the blissed out instrumental jangle of Johnny Boy's Theme.
If you had to pigeon hole the album, I guess it would be somewhere around early 90s Madchester pop produced by Phil Spector, but that's unfair; this is perfect pop in its own right and deserves to be huge. If you like You Are The Generation, you'll love this; if you didn't, try it anyway.
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