6x****
80's pop has a heavy hand on this album, and both the thumpy opener "Sometimes"**** and exuberantly skippy "Honey, Please"**** beg singing along and are more like Squeeze with balls than any 80's punk. Both "Hear me" and "From One cums One" have the happy, funky riffs of the Minutemen, "Making The Freeway"**** has a heavier 70's sound, including riff that could be ZZ Top in the breaks, and "Anger" also has a catchy rock riff. "For The Singer Of REM" is too aptly named, and "Windmiling"**** shares this similarity though it is as happy as the former is tentative. "Me & You, Remembering"**** is one of those novelty bits about reliving glory days, and 1:34 is just enough. "In Memory Of Elizabeth cotton"**** is an unexpectedly pretty folk ballad, similar to "Going To California". "Soon" is more a joining of two cool riffs than a song that flows, but each works well. Though the album ending "Thunder Child" is also more of an excuse to make cool sounds on bass and throw in a drum solo than a song, the monster riffing straight off of 2112 is pretty satisfying.
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