Blog: Song, by Toad

Fucking hell this is dreadful.  Really, annoyingly, frustratingly bad.  It starts out like the fucking Bee Gees, but fortunately ratchets it back from toe-curlingly awful to merely tediously mediocre pretty much immediately and then resolutely stays there for the rest of the album. Even the name of the band (d'you get it - d'you see what they did there?) has a self-satisfied, complacent whiff to it, and generally this whole sorry enterprise smacks of the lazy, lifeless exercise in self-congratulation and mutual backslapping which this sort of super[sic]-group stuff can so easily be accused of. I [...]

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