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Del Amitri have never achieved the commercial success to match the critical acclaim they receive. As songwriters they are among a small group who consistently turn out well-crafted songs with memorable tunes and thought-provoking lyrics which often reflect real-world cynicism and dark humour, rather than fluffy candyfloss pop. If this is pop, it's adult pop for true music fans who are weary of boy bands and dance music.
This is an album which will be far more familiar when you actually listen to it than when you read the track listing. All their best known releases are here - Nothing ever happens, Kiss this thing goodbye, Always the last to know, Not where it's at & Move away Jimmy Blue. You even get their France '98 anthem for the Scottish World Cup squad - Don't come home too soon! (Yes, quality songwriting and humour have even reached the barren territory of football songs, courtesy of Del Amitri).
This is first class ballad/folk/rock from one of Scotland's finest. A worthy addition to almost any music collection. Highly recommended.
- Because they write great, catchy, whistle-able pop tunes.
- Because they write insightful, witty songs about relationship disasters which still burst with hope and optimism.
- Because they are stunningly good at what they do.
- Because you cannot listen to any random three Del Amitri songs without feeling that little bit better about life.
It's impossible to explain music in writing, but to give you an idea about what makes them so good, let's consider the last track on this album, their Scotland World Cup song "Don't Come Home Too Soon". Here they take on a justly despised musical form (the footie song), a nation which always seems to fall short on the big stage in any sport (my own beloved Scotland) and, bridging them, the appalling musical crime of Andy Cameron's "Ally's Tartan Army", the Scotland World Cup song of 1978 which proudly claimed over truly dreadful music that "We'll really shake them up when we win the World Cup, 'cos Scotland are the greatest football team!" What do the Dels do? Well, first of all they write a soaring, uplifting melody which might have given Cameron's drivel the slightest hint of plausibility. And then they write a lyric entirely focused on Scotland not getting knocked out in the first Group stage! Talk about setting a more realistic goal... although it still didn't work.
There are no dud tracks on this album. So why four stars and not five? Well, I don't want you to think that buying this exhausts all that makes Del Amitri a truly first-rate band. The best, probably only, way to do that is to buy all their albums, because every one's a gem. If you really have room for only one Dels album on your life this will do, but buy "Change Everything" and you'll soon feel the need to own the rest.
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