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- Summary: The follow-up to the Leeds rock band's top selling sophomore album features Lily Allen and New Young Pony Club as guests.
- Record Label: Motown
- Genre(s): Rock
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Never Miss A Beat | |
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What did you learn today? I learned nothin' What did you do today? I did nothin' What did you learn at school? I didn't go Why didn't you go to... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 20
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Mixed: 8 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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Both anxious and anthemic, the third most famous band from Leeds, England (behind Gang of Four and the Mekons) lobs social commentary as sharp as drummer Nick Hodgson’s ties, and tackles subjects as brainy as evolutionary biology ('Like It Too Much,'), the tenets of self-help ('Tomato In the Rain') and gender politics ('Remember You’re A Girl'), all at breakneck speed.
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Off With Their Heads is great British pop in the dynamic lethal-irony tradition of the mid-Sixties Kinks, the early Jam and, with that vintage-New Wave tone of Nick Baines' keyboards, XTC's 1979 album, "Drums and Wires."
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Mostly band and producer Mark Ronson have done what both parties needed to do in late 2008: avoid the ordinary and obvious, namely glossy stadium-indie and retro-soul horns respectively, and aim for the extraordinary.
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It's not all great--'You Want History' can't overcome rhyming "mystery" with "history" or its leaden coda, for example--but it is at least as good as their debut, if not just a tick better for its relative dynamic and tonal variety.
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Off With Their Heads is more football chant schmindie, with only the briefest of diversions up Psycho Rock Avenue.
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Half-knowing, half-full of anthems and lyrically halfway to hell, Off With Their Heads is musically halfway there. Kaisers have barely missed a beat on the highway to massive-dom, but they’re hardly raising our heart rates.
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Ronson lowers Ricky Wilson’s maddeningly limited vocals and amps the bass, but the disc still fails to come alive.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 22
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Mixed: 2 out of 22
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Negative: 1 out of 22
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Jun 26, 2011
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SalS.Nov 7, 2008
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LouiseH.Nov 12, 2008Fantastic, love it. Songs are a much better quality, particulrly like Like It Too Much
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SommerNov 8, 2008As good or better than there previous two albums. A fantastic album.
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RachelADec 31, 2008
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May 14, 2012
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WolvesOct 29, 2008To say simple, "No fun".
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