Music : Twelve Stops and Home

Rating: - worst of the worst
possibly the most irritating bunch of useless dim wits to grace the music scene ever, the songs really are scraping the barrel to the point where it becomes quite offensive. Most of the songs comprise of background music reminisent of the type found on old commodore 64 computer games (only not as good) with that vile singer chanting the same childish lyrics over and over again in that horrible whiney voice.
Unfortunately this is the type of music your average thick moron seems to like these day's.

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Rating: - Will They Last?
The essence of any Brit-Pop band is do they have enough originality to last the distance? It's often easy to produce a stunning first album and then fail to live up to expectations. The first album can well be dominated by songs written over a period of time. The problem can come when new material has to be written.

Having said that there has to be a starting point and The Feeling are a decent southern England band with some catchy choruses and hook lines that have stood them apart from many of their contemporaries. They have the pseudo London feel of a Blur but mix it with decent melodies.

They are one of those bands that you hear in a shopping centre or on the radio and immediately think "that's good who are they? It's just remembering them apart from the others that is crucial. Their debut album is full of idiosyncratic pop tunes - Never Be Lonely and Sewn being just two that give this album a feisty feel that somehow links with the likes of Travis, Coldplay and Keane. "Anyone" is a beautifully structured almost classical piece of folk/rock/classical fusion

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Rating: - Feeling Great
Fed up of tuneless indi pop to slit your wrist to? Then try a life enhancing experience with 12 perfect songs, a great british feel, makes your heart burst with pride and joy, makes you want to run and jump and sing and cheer. Clever, poetic, intelligent lyrics, great tunes, everyone worthy of single release, cocky, romantic, with amazingly assured musicianship.

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Rating: - Excellent.
I bought this album on the strength of reviews here as many of them mentioned Queen and Status Quo, both of whom for me are all time favourites. Well, Twelve Stops... doesn't disappoint. All the things I love about Quo and Queen (guitar rock with a touch of melody) are here. Brilliant!

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Rating: - It's Okay.....
Can't say that it's not all been done before. Nice sunny pop.... AOR with pop punk overtones and a twist of the Knack coupled with haircuts my dad used to think were cool! Predictable homogenous...but okay...I guess it's a "but the little girls understand" scenario.
If you want real pop rock heaven search out the first and only Screams album...oh yeah and anything Jellyfish did.