647. The Headliners: “Voodoo Plan”
Somehow underpowered, mannered; this should be sweaty and exuberant and silly and fun, it all sounds a bit restrained, a bit tentative, not fully committed. (4)
Somehow underpowered, mannered; this should be sweaty and exuberant and silly and fun, it all sounds a bit restrained, a bit tentative, not fully committed. (4)
If the Headliners surely didn’t kid themselves they were making a rival to I Get Around, it must still have been galling to play the tape back and find they hadn’t even made an Amusement Parks USA or Salt Lake City.(3)
None of the individual elements of this (the song, the vocals, the band) is completely awful, just mediocre, but somehow when they’re all put together they amount to less than the sum of their parts. I’m not often physically worn out by trying to listen to a record turned up loud, but this one managed it, and I don’t particularly want to hear it again. Sorry, lads. (2)
Not completely terrible, it has its redeeming features, but if I find I’m impatiently waiting for a record to finish, then it’s not done it for me, I’m afraid. (3)