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BlenderHere the pleas and tirades strive heavy-handedly, little aided by the Blokes' equally unsubtle barroom marches. [Apr/May 2002, p.112]
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His pontification gets in the way of his songwriting.
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Bragg and The Blokes' delivery sounds just as dated as the social traditions they lampoon.
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Q MagazineThe result is almost entirely vaudevillian. [Mar 2002, p.116]
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Unfortunately, his own lyrics are best when they're intimate and pointed, which they rarely are here.
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While his rhetoric remains fiery, the material is weak.