Before Hollywood [Remastered] [ECD] - Go-Betweens (The)

Advantages: It can improve your life
Disadvantages: Sorry?

...wowed. Mouth already hanging open before it had even reached the cd player. When it finally did, I was appalled. No tunes. Horrible guitars. Deadly dull. But at least I've got it to show off, so back it goes on the shelf. That should have been the end of the matter, but some months later I had the silly notion to give it another listen, and something strange happened; where before nothing had made any sense, things started to click. On further plays, ...
...little detours in-between and side-roads that seem to lead nowhere. But it doesn't matter, because where some might see dead-ends, I see only huge steaming great pots of gold. Love is blind, after all. And every time I listen to Before Hollywood, I fall in love all over again. ... Read review

Advantages: lovely, cheap?
Disadvantages: cheeeeeeesy

Yes, possibly the worst band name ever ever ever.But then everyone thought Take That was a rubbish band name at first. Sunhouse released one album and a handful of singles on the Indepeniente record label, they received a little press coverage mostly due to their being the principle artist on the sountrack of "Twentyfourseven" directed by Shane Meadows. Most of the reviews were pretty scathing but I think that the band produced some songs worthy ...
...Sunhouse produce gritty-voiced folk-centred songs to be depressed to. They're detectable influences are Nick Drake and the Buckleys and their sound is more traditionally acoustic and than many other bands who share these roots. The band's only album "Crazy On The Weekend" has a fairly tragic and melancholy mood, with the most promising songs being the most stark. One of Sunhouse's weaknesses is their tendancy for melodrama and self indulgence and ... Read review