Right Now

For a long time already I've been trying to remind myself to listen to Hippy but always I've forgotten to do that. This morning once again I found myself wanting to kick things and remembered that maybe I should review the whole CD at the same time.

#1 Right Now 9

At first I thought this was really bad. I could've agreed to what a person on the AoB chat said to someone else: "You have a very good musical taste but the one thing I can't understand in it is Atomic Shitten..." Quite energetic.

#2 Follow Me 7

And all these mediocrities they released as singles before actually hitting it big time with WA.

#3 Whole Again 10

I can't understand how they didn't see right away that this would be the international #1 hit? This has evergreen written all over it. Their flat singing once again is a big drawback but not big enough to ruin the whole thing. Oh my, I just remembered how HRL and I decided to hear the title on a certain very late and tired night...

#4 Eternal Flame 10

The original is better. It's the general flatness of these artists that does the thing. Maybe I should start calling them Atomic Flatten? Or Flatonic Slitten? Maybe even Platonic Mitten? Um, ahem...

#5 Tonight & Tomorrow 4½

This is absolutely horrible.

#6 Get Real 5

This is almost as horrible.

#7 Turn Me On 8½

This funny disco tune contains beat fills of the kind that I thought only myself daring to use. I don't know if that's a good thing as I myself use them only because I can't do any better.

#8 Hippy 8

Musically I've never liked this but that one certain line of lyric really hits the spot: "Now you wanna kick it cos you dropped it on the floor". That's so very accurate description of what I feel every now and then when my nerves are apparently so tight that dropping something makes me want to kick it. Funny how first I didn't understand the line at all. I guess the importance gained through this has added at least a whole number to the score.

#9 You Are 7

The... let me count... seventh single off this album?!? That's even better than with Aqua and Aquarium! And then you still considered releasing TMO as the eighth one...

#10 Cradle 9

This is actually rather beautiful.

#11 Bye Now 6

Back to boredom. If tracks 5 and 6 were like Spice Girls fillers gone bad, this is a similar Steps one.

#12 Strangers 5

Oh my Xanthism what orientally attempted horrors...

#13 See Ya 7½

They thought it would be funny to include a lengthy silence at the end of one track so that people would think the album ended here, without two more of their generic singles. Well, here they are, after all.

#14 I Want Your Love 8½

This has some certain boombastic Xena atmosphere to it.