poison - look what the cat dragged in

I had to find out, had this album matured like a good cheese, or would it turn out to be like a cup of hot chocolate left under the bed for several weeks, fuzzy but disgusting at the same time.
When this album was released I would have been more interested in playng dungeons and dragons and battling with my hormones. I do not remember much else about 1986, though a quick check on wikipedia shows it to be an eventful year and Highlander, Aliens, and Platoon are all in my favourite films list.
Look What The Cat Dragged In has the kind of cover that would confirm all your parents’ fears about rock music. To say to your dad “I want to look like these guys” would probably get you marched down to the army careers office faster than you could say “cross-dressing pansies”, but as I said, I was interested on other things at the time.
As before, I will asses the album using three criteria, today they are walking home in the rain, cooking, and pretending to be asleep while the little one goes to bed.
1. Walking home in the rain – I decided on this category because a, that’s what I was doing and b, I could not escape the album even if I wanted to. It was overall quite a pleasant experience, the music being bland enough to let my mind wander but not so flat or awful that I would just turn it off. 6/10.
2. Cooking – again the album just blended into the background without becoming irritating, not as good as some cooking music but acceptable so 5/10.
3. Pretending to be asleep while the little one goes to bed – my youngest son insists on somebody lying on his brother’s bed while he goes to sleep listening to cbeebies music. I have a habit of taking in an mp3 player turned down low when its my turn. Now this is a more difficult mark to give because I actually fell asleep. was I tired, relaxed or just bored? I do not know. So for this I will have to give 5/10 just to be fair.

Overall mark 5.3/10

Cheesy chocolate anyone?



Ps
This song includes the most romantic sounding phrase in the English language “cellar door”.

something different

While I sit here wallowing in misery, having trod on a nail in the garden then later in the afternoon I had a tooth extracted (aching at both ends), I thought I might share a new discovery (new for me anyway).
Jelonek by Michal Jelonek is a strange mix of violin driven rock from Poland, it’s very difficult to find out more about this chap as all the articles on the internet seem to be in polish.
I put the album to the three tests, the cycling test, the cooking test and the bathing test.
The cycling test- here I thought the changing pace of the album would be a problem, starting fast and then dropping off, but after five miles I was quite glad of the slowdown, just long enough to get it together before the pace picked up, only complaint was that it did not last long enough to get my home again (though I was out for two hours) – overall a good cycling album 9/10
The cooking test- I like to listen to music when I cook, its one of the few occasions I can listen to music and ignore the moans of other family members, when I cook I am god, anyone who comes into the kitchen had better tread carefully. Jelonek is not the best cooking album going, its ok but its not great, you can do a Sunday roast to it but breakfast and lunch just don’t work. So cooking gets 5/10
The bathing test- this involves nothing more than lying in a hot bath with a glass of something and listening to the music on an mp3 player, I think this is what did for my last two mp3 players. Again this is an ok album for chilling in the bath too, not great but not bad but it gets a bit boring after a while just doing nothing and listening to it so for bathing it gets 5/10

Overall 6.3/10