Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit - Meteors (The)

Advantages: Simply brilliant!
Disadvantages: Err...

...The waterboys - the Irish-Scottish cult band - totally brilliant, yet not what you might expect to be one of the favourites of a 13 year old punk rock fan, i.e. me. But I love them, the brilliance of lyrics that often make no sense, but often make sense in a very intelligent way, imaginitively put as such is the title of the first track, 'a girl called Johnny', and even the title of that is remarkably different from the average sector of the music market. The track list is as follows... Girl called Johnny Big music All the things she gave me Whole of the moon Spirit Don't bang the drum Fisherman's blues Killing my heart Strange boat And a bang on the ear Old England Man is in love The album opens with a superb track, the continuous rhythm of a girl called Johnny, with powerful lyrics by Mike Scott... Read review

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Advantages: uplifting, upbeat, will make you smile
Disadvantages: I prefer their earlier albums

...Track listing "Bang For The Buck" "Yudee!" "The Breakdown" "Left Behind" "Smack" "Einstein's On Stage" "Let It Out" "Lower the Boom" "Andy Vs Dizzy" "Slow The Flow" "Shoot Your Shot" "The End Of Time" This is the latest offering from ugly duckling, one of my favourite groups. Made up of Dizzy Dustin, Young Einstein and Andy Cooper, the three make a killer combination. The appealing thing about them is the way in which they combine different musical styles with hip hop to make it more appealing to people who may not necessarily be interesting in rap and hip hop as it is often percieved, like 50 cent and Dr Dre. Instead, Ugly Duckling remind me more of Jurassic 5 with just a little cheesy touch of will smith! There are also a few touches of De La Soul and A tribe called quest. This album does not, in my... Read review

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Advantages: Rock and roll....comedic style!
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

....A" and "Fight!" - yes, these guys don't bother with complicated song titles, so I need not explain too much about what those two songs are about, but let me just give you a line from "Fight!" - "Come on, come on, lets have a fight" - as if from the pen of Shakespeare himself! Another stand-out is "Bad Weekend", which is apparently based literally on why the band formed - to appear on Top of the Pops, and quite simple, nothing else! Hey, it's the reason why all bands form...honestly! Also note, that as a live act, they're just as enthusiastic as on CD - exploding on stage like hyper-active jack-in-the-boxes, with Eddie Argos proclaiming at the start of every song; "Let's Go Art Brut!" - fun time rock and roll! Of course, it's certainly not going to be appreciated by some people, particularly traditionalists, which is fair enough... Read review

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