I'm talking a ★ off for this song.

Electric joanna.

Is this the drummer singing and writing?

It's a weaker song, but it's got a Fender Rhodes on it.

And it has a casual confidence about it that puts me at rest.

Last track - Meanwhile Back at the Ranch/Should I Smoke?

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Is this the drummer singing and writing?

It does somehow smack of a minor band member's inp*t.

I've heard this one somewhere before.

Meanwhile...

It's positively chugging along.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

I've heard this one somewhere before.

The previous ten songs?

Shared lead vocals.

That didn't quite work, can they pull it out with the other half of this double bill?

So hard to dislike any of these songs.

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

That didn't quite work, can they pull it out with the other half of this double bill?

Not really.

Well that was, Real Now!

It is over.

That was all fab, filled with energy, choons and great playing, one of the most enervating albums we've done.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.

That was it, no?

Bonus discs are off limits, Shirley?

Hmm.. Game of two halves Trevor, side one, and the first track of side two were great, then a minor short song, which is fine, then ends with a wimper.

Still, it's getting 4★ out of 5. Is one of the better ones we've had so far.

As I say, never heard 'em before, And no where near as B*atles/W*ngish as I expected, although they're obviously fans of P*ul McC*ntney, and that other lot.

Almost like a better post Roy Wood ELO

Anyway, despite the many many and ample opportunities to say "this song is a rip off of this or that song" I found the record to be genuinely wonderful, charming, groovy and elegant, loving pastiche of it's influences...

Remember:

Pastiche
Parody
P*ss-take

Different things.

Also...

Prattling on.