How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell
by Bob Geldof
  • Record Label: Mercury
  • Release Date: Mar 15, 2011
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57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. Uncut
    Feb 25, 2011
    60
    If Geldof had been able to restrain his instinct toward baffling over-production, he might have come up with something that fulfilled the promise of its title. [Mar 2011, p.91]
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  2. Q Magazine
    Apr 6, 2011
    60
    Giddy with excitement at times, his enthusiasm for life at 58 comes as a relief after 2001's Sex Age & Death. [Apr 2011, p.102]
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  3. musicOMH.com
    Feb 17, 2011
    50
    As such, the experimentations, and their hit-and-miss nature, doesn't make for an album you want to play over and over again; in fact, a fair amount of tunes are rather forgettable and don't really offer much.
  5. The Independent (UK)
    Feb 17, 2011
    40
    He doesn't care whether you want it or not, he's going to do it anyway. And How to Compose... confirms that he undoubtedly still loves music. The problem is, it's usually somebody else's music,

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