Tuesday, September 18, 2018

#3069 Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama

Swooping guitars with plenty of Elton/Bowie* swooning at the stars. Maid in Heaven's a underappreciated stomper, and Nelson's falling teardrop lines are never sweeter than on Sister Seagull. The songs are all enjoyable, they're just not really _about anything, bringing no personality to speak of, never amounting to anything more than a sequence of very pleasant guitar noises 3.5/5

* I'm not saying Bowie has a two-word trademark on "sad affair", but it does sound like a knock-on bit of microplagiarism on a song that already sounds that much like Life on Mars

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