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- Date Released: January 1, 2002
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Damaged Goods / state51
More songs about songs and songs.
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We Say...
By 2002, when this came out, Helen Love had moved on from name-checking Joey Ramone to referencing Atari Teenage Riot, but the idea remains the same. "So in Love with You" addresses the wonderful fickleness of pop fandom ("She reads a teen mag everyday/ Stuck to the Problem Page/ But now she's ripped it up and thrown it away"), while "Long Live the U.K. Music Scene" mocks Britpop also-rans like Shed Seven and Ocean Colour Scene, "Jump Up and Down" is an ace aping of fast-and-ridiculous Eurotechno and the self-explanatory "Yeah Yeah We're Helen Love" amplifies its own joke by incorporating an interview with a U.S. radio jock and going on for an un-Helen Love-like five minutes (including a two-minute MOR joke coda). Robert Christgau once called the Magnetic Fields' Holiday "more songs about songs and songs." That goes for Radio Hits 3 as well.
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They Say...
This third collection of singles from Helen Love is an enjoyable bunch. Americans are unlikely to be familiar with Helen Love, while she's much more of a sensation in England. Love is a fan of the Ramones and appeared on Joey Ramone's solo album, but while her tunes are simple and repetitive like the Ramones, the music here is electro-pop/punk, all synth-driven rock tunes. Not too far off from Elastica or Fuzzbox, Love's songs are all pretty catchy, if not so different from one another. It's radio-friendly pop, though not the sort that would ever make it onto the radio in the States. You'll either be charmed by songs like "King of Kung Fu," "Shifty Disco Girl," and "Does Your Heart Go Boom," or run briskly from them. It's not necessarily something for Ramones fans, but more likely music that will go over well with folks who are hooked into the whole U.K. music scene, to which there are many references on this record.
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| 01. |  |
Does You Heart Go Boom |
2:26 |
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| 02. | |
So In Love With You |
1:51 |
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| 03. | |
Yeah Yeah We're Helen Love |
5:18 |
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| 04. | |
Put Your Foot On The Fuzzbox Baby |
2:07 |
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| 05. | |
Long Live The UK Music Scene |
2:36 |
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| 06. | |
Sunburst Super Kay |
3:08 |
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| 07. | |
Great In Formula One |
2:26 |
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| 08. | |
Shifty Disco Girl |
3:05 |
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| 09. | |
King Of Kung Fu |
2:28 |
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| 10. | |
Leader Of The Pack |
2:11 |
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| 11. | |
Jump Up And Down |
3:30 |
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| 12. | |
Atomic Beat Boy |
3:37 |
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| 13. | |
Big Pink Candyfloss Haircut |
4:02 |
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| 14. | |
Does Your Heart Go Boom (Cuban Boys Remix) |
5:54 |
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| 15. | |
Number One Fantastic Day |
2:41 |
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15 Total Tracks, 47:20 Total Length
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