I listened to '69' today, and I'd forgotten how much of a "pop sheen", to quote myself, that already has. I tend to remember "Baby Milk Snatcher" and stop there, but there's a lot of quite fairly poppy stuff on there too. Okay, not Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, but not a million miles away either.
I think the music press cynicism about them was probably related to one of them being in the advertising industry, which, obviously, meant that he couldn't have had any musical ideas beyond crass commercialism...
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