Healy stretches every lunkheaded syllable to its elastic limit, until those words bluster almost anthemic. And this Scot’s no one-hit wonder — 11 more stunners spell stardom.
This might be a debut rooted deep in the heart of rock'n'roll classicism, but it's also an explosively accomplished exercise in the art of writing thrilling and memorable pop songs.
It's got some bops but is still shaking the weird wit the, by this point, nearly exhausted and weary peak of britpop. It obviously didn't suit them and they'd not lean into that ever again, firmly settling into soft rock (or, post-britpop lol). All I Wanna Do Is Rock owns. U16 Girls is bad awful lmao god this album woulda honestly been an 80 were it not for that.
It's weird that I can say that I liked the album with only giving it a 55, but hear me out.
This album has five great songs: Good Feeling (a proper title track, incredibly unexpected ragtime bridge), Midsummer Nights Dreamin' (a bizarre upbeat pop song with insane outro), Tied to the 90's (a fun "Howdoyoudo fellow kids" camp song), Falling Down (a gorgeous slowdown piano piece), and Funny Thing (Don't know why, but this is nearly perfect for me. Too similar to the previous song). ... read more
| 1 | All I Want to Do Is Rock 3:54 | |
| 2 | U16 Girls 4:01 | |
| 3 | The Line Is Fine 4:05 | |
| 4 | Good Day to Die 3:17 | |
| 5 | Good Feeling 3:25 | |
| 6 | Midsummer Nights Dreamin' 3:55 | |
| 7 | Tied to the 90's 3:08 | |
| 8 | I Love You Anyways 5:31 | |
| 9 | Happy 4:16 | |
| 10 | More Than Us 3:57 | |
| 11 | Falling Down 4:17 | |
| 12 | Funny Thing 5:22 |