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Please Don't Ever Change

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Quite a good BS album, not their best but quite fine. In spite of their position as the godfather of pub (or perhaps because of it) they never quite became a pub band, although you can here what is coming in their entire catalogue. They started out trying to be the Dead but here they sound like a decountryfied version of The Flying Burrito Brothers or The Eagles. The best songs on this album `Hooked On Love' and `Play That Fast Thing' have been done better elsewhere, but that does not seriously detract from the appeal of this fine album. It's loose laid back fun.

"Please Don't Ever Change" which was Brinsley Schwarz's fifth album, is somewhat of a disappointment. After two artistically successful albums, "Silver Gun"and "Nervous on the Road", both were strongly influenced by American country music, this album surprisingly is an almost pure r&b album.

The melodious songs from Nick Lowe, Ian Gomm are virtually absent on this album where as much four tracks are cover versions. Nick Lowe's songs come out almost as ironic pastiches of artists like Elvis Presley and Fats Domino. Most memorable is probably "Why do we Hurt the One We Love" which has a surprising reggae-like beat. Reggae music had by this time not really caught on.

The by far the strongest track on the album is Ian Gomm's soulfull "Hooked on Love" which has a nice drive, and may give associations towards the Grateful Dead at their best. Wisely enough, this song was chosen as the opening number, unfortunately the album grauadually loses steam from there.