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The surprise success story of the "Scousadelic" Liverpool scene, on Tired Of Hangin’ Around The Zutons trump their debut with an assured, confident collection of songs that accentuate their skill for vintage R&B, white-man soul, and some of the best rowdy sax since The Specials strode the earth. Perhaps in retrospect it’s easy to see why this band have struck the public nerve in the way The Coral and The Bandits never quite could. No spooked, surrealist pirate swashbucklers here--The Zutons’ songs are grounded in the here and now, numbers like "It’s The Little Things We Do", the sound of frontman Dave McCabe weaving an unsteady path from barstool to barstool with dwindling pay-cheque clutched in fist, or "Valerie"--a message to an ex-lover reminiscent of the tattered majesty of The Faces in their garrulous heyday. Much improved is Abi Harding’s saxophone work, now capable of sensitive, jazzy undertones ("You’ve Got A Friend In Me") or sudden bursts of nutty, bandy-legged strut, and McCabe’s soulful vocal is neatly bolstered by full-band backing vocals that add an enjoyably cabaret sense of drama to even the twitchiest blast of skiffle-punk. The sound of a band coming on in leaps and bounds. --Louis Pattison
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Retro but Contempory,
This review is from: Tired Of Hanging Around (Audio CD)
I have played this a few times now, but it is still fresh and continues to grow on me, however the knockout tracks for me, are the two singles: 'Valerie' and 'Why don't you give me your love', plus 'Oh Stacey (look what you've done)' and 'I know I'll never leave', which vocally David McCabe really belts out. The Zutons have a retro sound, but with contempory lyrics. They're like a mix of: The Faces, Marc Bolan & T-Rex, and 'Ziggy Stardust' & 'Aladdin Sane' period Bowie, finished off with a Britpop sensibility, and Ska type saxophone playing courtesy of sax on legs - Abi Harding, who is an awesome sax player, and if it were 1979/1980, she would probably be in a Ska band like The Bodysnatchers. The song that really blew me away the most, out of all the songs that I mentioned, was 'Oh Stacey (look what you've done)'. The breezy saxophone playing, combined with it's uplifting tune, is very deceptive, because lyrically it is a very tragic tale about a daughter stressing out her dad to the point where the stress kills him, and then she drinks her inheritence money to cope with what she's done. We have a great British tradition of writing tragic lyrics disguised in upbeat commercial sounding songs. Buy it!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Good,
By Adam Smith "Smiff" (Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tired Of Hanging Around (Audio CD)
This is a great album, I would recommend it to almost anyone. However, it has to be said that it isnt quite as good as the first album. Who Killed the Zutons? has many more memorable tracks, and a few interesting oddities such as "Moons and Horror Shows" and "Don't Ever Think Too Much". "Valerie" & "Why Won't You Give Me Your Love" are catchy tracks though, and you're singing along before you know it.
I also found that the first track sounds very much like Status Quo, anyone else agree? Nonetheless its still excellent stuff, and the real matter now is whether the Zutons can produce the goods in an infamously difficult third album.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, but different!,
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This review is from: Tired Of Hanging Around (Audio CD)
I like this album as much as the debut. The excellent production and more mainstream feel should project the Zutons to superstradom. As a buyer of mainly 70's and 80's material I must admit that these are one of only a handful of new(ish)bands that excite me. The quality of the songwriting is reflected in the fact that virtually everybody I know loves "Valerie". I'm sure I will be enjoying this for years to come.
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