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Never Loved Elvis (Import) (CD)

By: Wonder Stuff (The)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Never Loved Elvis (Import) (CD) Album By Wonder Stuff (The)
1   Mission Drive  
2   Play  
3   False Start  
4   Welcome To The Cheap Seats  
5   Size Of A Cow  
6   Sleep Alone  
7   Donation  
8   Inertia  
9   Grotesque  
10   Here Comes Everyone  
11   Caught In My Shadow  
12   38 Line Poem  
 

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Review

Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #6 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991 - "...Wittily crafted and enthusiastically executed throughout..."
Q (12/00, p.151) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Brought them to the apex of their popularity: the number 5 hit 'The Size OF A Cow'...being a slightly younger generation's 'Come On Eileen'..."

Product note

The Wonder Stuff: Miles Hunt (vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion); Malc Treece (vocals, guitar); Martin Bell (guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, accordion, piano); Paul Cifford (bass); Martin Gilks (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Kirsty MacColl (vocals); Elly Newton, Alison Gabriel (violin); Genene Edwards (viola); Judith Fleet (cello); James Taylor (Hammond organ).

Album Description

The Wonder Stuff's third and best album (although their 1988 debut, The Eight-Legged Groove Machine, is pretty wonderful), 1991's Never Loved Elvis, is the album that made Miles Hunt and company at least temporary superstars in the U.K. (It also got them the most commercial exposure they ever achieved in the U.S., where the Kinksy, music hall-styled single "The Size of a Cow" was a big college radio hit.) It departs from the first two albums by de-emphasizing the dance rhythms and Buzzcocks-like guitars and (courtesy of new multi-instrumentalist Martin Bell) adding fiddle, banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and accordion to the mix. Kirsty MacColl's inimitable vocals add another excellent texture to a couple of songs, especially the folk-rocky "Welcome to the Cheap Seats." There's a much sweeter sound to this unapologetically poppy album, and even Hunt's lyrics are less snide and arrogant than before. The disappointing follow-up, 1993's Construction for the Modern Idiot, shows that the Wonder Stuff couldn't maintain this creative high for long, but Never Loved Elvis is one of the better U.K. pop albums of 1991. ~ Stewart Mason

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