However it might look, lounging around Venice wearing shades and smoking fags isn't big and clever, so don't do it, kids!
This was another CD for a quid in a charity shop in Leicester, possibly against my better judgement, since this album is frequently a quid in a charity shop.
However, my enjoyment of Father Ted does make me warm to Divine Comedy main man Neil Hannon, composer of the theme tune, and famously name checked as Mrs Doyle struggles to guess the name of Father Todd Unctious.
So, what of this album? it opens with a couple of the hit singles, the ordinary Something For the Weekend, and the far more infectious Becoming More Like Alfie, probably my high point of the album. But frankly, there's not much else that appeals, and the lounge lizard feel of the album grates. Of the remaining nine songs, Songs Of Love (done as an instrumental on a harpsichord for the Father Ted theme) is pleasant, but most of the rest, which have a musical theatre feel, really aren't my thing at all.
I'll put this one down to experience - it's not a style of music I enjoy at all, and it will probably go back to the charity shop.
2* - only a couple of songs appeal. It's not a bad album, more a genre which does nothing for me.
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