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Summary: Lets try this now....
Comment: Potential....a word written about various England sportsman..a gloriously English way to bury young talent...enough about sport....this is the Mystery Jets review!!!
After the chaotic sixties prog of their debut LP this is a major suprise,eighties synths,whip cracking snares and slap-bass tumble from the speakers alongside distorted piano chords....are the magpies at play??
But it works....again, these guys have the potential to be the best band on this island....,the melodies are strong enough to smother the smell of some opportunist musical snatch n grabs.
As a whole,this could a 4 star record but the faintly uprising change of musical direction doest seem completely sincere but by no means is this a bad record,not when the likes of Coldplay exist anyway!.
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Summary: I love this album, but...
Comment: It REALLY annoys the faeces out of me when bands re-release ablums with a new song and a snazzier cover. When I compile my CD square, I like to see nice bright colours and prettiness in the covers, like this here version has, but my original one does not. I'm not saying I don't like the cover, it's just this one has really funky writing.
Also, the matter of the new song. It seems as if Mystery Jets have taken the "Two Doors Down" opportunity to lengthen their album and, dare I say it, sell more. Why could they have not just put the new song on the album in the first place? Adding it in now and re-releasing just makes fans who bought it when it came out originally feel like they are missing out.
If you didn't buy the first version of this album, I highly recommend that you buy this one, as it still contains all the fantastic eighties pop delights. Two Doors Down is the most obvious example, but Young Love and Half In Love with Elizabeth are equally catchy, and Flakes may just be my favourite Mystery Jets song ever (It's beautiful, though difficult to sing along to). Behing the Bunhouse is also excellent with all its rolling pin violence references, and on my version it has the "hidden track" at the end, after the obligatory pause. So yes, it seems that without Harrison Senior, Mystery Jets have moved from the remote corners of the indie world to the spotlight of popular attention, and rightly so as this effortlessly fun, Erol Alkan produced album proves they deserve it.
All I am saying is that they should not forget their original fans on the way.
We too would like a snazzy cover.
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Summary: As if to prove my point they add a track!!!
Comment: The Franke Whittles' are no longer a mystery. I hear tills jangling from the massed ranks buying their music at Asda. A debasement of this nature should, in the quality control section of the wuthering maelstrom,being put on a very long detour, landing in the basement of some dante-ean bargain bin. The sirens have sounded way past an inferno and hence my digits are inextricably retracted hitherto. Oh no press not the buttons,press never again those buttons.
greatflunkdoms to ye
Addendum (added 12/6/08) It's very very simple, 1st album was magic ,this one is mediocre beyond belief, and if you are unable to recognise mediocrity when it hits your lug 'oles then so be it.
And now you are invited to spend more of your pennies,on an album released within a matter of weeks of the original one, with two extra tracks on it, oh wow, let me rush out now to purchase....
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