Quote Originally Posted by Stone
Interesting view, Mark. I really like "Robot" and the more I hear "A to B" the less I like it - it sounds like a Rutles song* to me or something because of the chorus. "Decent Days and Nights," though, is in a dead heat right now with "Hounds of Love" for my favorite track on that album. Overall, I think the album's really solid and will likely be in my top ten.

Stone

* Sounding like a Rutles song isn't necessarily bad, but to me it just doesn't fit well with the rest of the songs and is less enjoyable than the surrounding songs.
I find this phenomenon a lot, friends who I generally agree with on albums, who'se tastes are generally similar to mine, have widely differing opinions on particular songs within the albums....my favorite tracks of theirs are one's I skip over, and vice versa. just kinda strange thing I've noticed in my travels. At first I liked Robot, the opening of which sounds eerily like the Jam song "A" Bomb in Wardour Street, but I don't like the direction it goes from there. Generally I hear more Jam than anything else in The Futureheads, and I think you know how much I like The Jam. But the Jam album I most hear is "This is the Modern World", by far my least favorite, but then by far my favorite Jam album came next, which is why I said I'm anxious to see what comes next for these guys. Agreed, a solid album, but not in my top 5.