I’ve spent a lot of the last couple of weeks trying to listen to the new Maximo Park album and failing because I just find so frustratingly and disappointingly dull (the curse of the difficult third album? it doesn’t have to be this way but it happened to Bloc Party too, I think), and so giving up on it and instead enjoying The Liberty of Norton Folgate by Madness which is brilliant, a modern life in London album with lots of great songs. But I’m not going to play anything from it because I can’t see anything much from it out there and don’t want to get moaned at, and you should go and buy it anyway. A few dancey Friday numbers?
Madness – Believe Me mp3
Madness – Shut Up mp3
Madness Bed and Breakfast Man mp3
May 22, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I have spent the last week doing the same thing…even leaving the album next to my bed to make me listen to it last thing at night when I actually have time. It is at present lying, dumped but not forgotten, in my underwear drawer..so much for Quickening the Heart !
Thank you for the Dancey Friday Numbers
x
May 22, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Is it as good as they’re all saying then?
May 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Hi Adam,
Can I send you some rare Aztec Camera?
June 1, 2009 at 2:06 am
It is so hard to accept that something once so exciting and vibrant can become so stale and forced. I wish it wasn’t this way.
June 2, 2009 at 11:02 am
i still love his voice, though. sigh. maybe it’s just a dry spell and after they have a little more life experience it will give them the spark again?
June 5, 2009 at 7:22 pm
and I thought it was just me that was disappointed with the Maximo Park record….