How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell - Bob Geldof
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  • Summary: The fifth solo album for The Boomtown Rats singer is his first since 2001's Sex, Age & Death.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. BBC Music
    Feb 17, 2011
    80
    It may have taken Geldof a while to get here, but as he prepares to collect his bus pass it seems wisdom and reflection have finally overtaken venomous splurge as his choice of artistic cloak. And it's a very good look for him.
  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Feb 17, 2011
    30
    It's coated in a layer of pseudo-authenticity, but ultimately it's a record which aims for Bo Diddley or Johnny Cash and merely attains Dire Straits.

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