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Review: Jack Foley
CHRISTMAS time, misteltoe and compilations - oh, and you'll need
the wine to get through this one.
Self-confessed housewives' favourite, Wet Wet Wet, have decided
to reform and put out a Greatest Hits package. Bah humbug, I hear
you cry!
Designed as a showcase of their songwriting talent, the album
feels more like a thinly-disguised attempt to cash-in on the forthcoming
(and over-priced) tour, while providing an unwanted reminder of
their former hits.
Principal among them, of course, was the wretched Love Is
All Around, taken from the soundtrack of the Working Title
movie, Four Weddings and a Funeral.
It may have worked well within the constraints of that movie,
yet even Working Title saw fit to take the piss out of it, by
covering it with the knowingly awful Bill Nighy version, Christmas
Is All Around, taken from the soundtrack of their Love
Actually movie.
Still, at least it provided some consolation while listening
to this - the thought of Bill Nighy parading around with a bevy
of buxom beauties, taking the proverbial out of ageing rockers,
and that Robert Plant video.
But back to Wet Wet Wet. Pellow and co trawl through their biggest
chart-busters, while paying attention to some of the more popular
album material.
Needless to say, Wishing I Was Lucky, Angel Eyes, With A
Little Help From My Friends and Goodnight Girl all
get a look in, as does the current single, All I Want.
It's not that Marti Pellow's voice is bad, per se, merely soft
and hopelessly chart-fixated, while that ever-present grin he
provides while singing any number is difficult to shake from the
brain.
Contrived would be a good way to describe what Wet Wet Wet have
to offer. Needless to say, the Greatest Hits package dampened
my afternoon on a rare day that it wasn't raining.
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Track listing:
1. All I Want
2. Goodnight Girl
3. Temptation (Short Version)
4. Lip Service (Greatest Hits Edit)
5. Love Is All Around
6. Julia Says
7. Wishing I Was Lucky
8. Sweet Surrender (Short Version)
9. Hear Me Now
10. Sweet Little Mystery
11. Somewhere Somehow
12. Stay With Me Heartache
13. If I Never See You Again
14. Angel Eyes (Home And Away) (Short Version)
15. Don't Want To Forgive Me Now
16. She's All On My Mind
17. Morning (Greatest Hits Edit)
18. Strange (Radio Edit)
19. With A Little Help From My Friends
20. (Feels Like I'm) Walking On Water
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