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The Happy Mondays :: "Plaground Superstar"From Goal (Big Brother; 2005)
I'm not sure which is more surprising at this point; that the Happy Mondays
have a new song out, or that Shaun William Ryder is still alive (and looking
ok too, if about 100 lbs. heavier).
Unsurprisingly, this one off track from the soundtrack to Brit-football
flick Goal! has about as little in common with the classic Mondays sound
as you would suspect. By now they've gone through as many personnel changes
as Jethro Tull, and Rowetta's bleating is conspiculously (and sadly) absent.
So what we're left with is a lager-ready shout along that's some ungodly
hybrid of The Stone Roses' "Love Spreads" and Robbie Williams's "Kids,"
complete with cheesy white-boy harmonica riffing. Hardly "Kinky Afro" then,
but still pretty catchy, and it can't help but warm the heart to see 'ol SWR
with some remaining semblance of a career at this point. A teaser for the
inevitable (5th or 6th) reunion tour, then?
David M. Goldstein :: 25 October 2005 |
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