WISH I WERE YOU

Alisha's Attic

So hands up all those of you who thought the first album was top stuff, fun, happy, optimistic and with harmonies that Boyz II Men aspire to achieve one day. The second album though, that was a different beast. Still the harmonies, but this time stripped bare with very little in the way of extraneous musical instruments, it was a bit more grown up than Alisha Rules The World. This is the same.

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Emmie

What's the best way to start a career in the wonderful world of popular music? By nicking someone else's song, of course. That way you know the song will be accepted by the kids for the frothy, effervescent and upbeat outing that it is (for further information on this particular brand, see Karen Ramirez, Everything But The Girl and The Corrs) and the adults will love it because they'll remember it from the first time round (when it was good, usually). This time round, it's a Northern Lass TM called Emmie who gently croons her way through an old Roxy Music standard (mainly because there are no new ones) in such a way as to make Bryan Ferry weep with the beauty of it all.

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Blockster

The Osmonds. An excessively toothed horror which was unleashed in the early 1970s to lay waste to entire nations of teenagers before being rounded up in order to donate their teeth to the Bee Gees.

The Bee Gees. An excessively toothed trio, unleashed in the 1960s, still at large and still churning out songs and loaning the odd one out to their best mates.

Blockster. Some bloke called Brandon Block, who's "borrowed" one of their songs (You Should Be Dancing) and added phat beats and stuff, thereby ensuring the tune duly goes off on one.