Darts of Pleasure

One of the best ever EPs...oops...I mean: singles

This is better than the album! And that is saying something! I'm sure that, when we're all old in 2012, these songs will be shoehorned in at the end as bonus tracks. All are equally astonishing, and life-affirming.

I hadn't even heard Darts of Pleasure when I bought this, but was intrigued by the smattering of lyrics on the back - yes, of course: Van Tango's "He wore his quiff Venetian style" (by the way - does that mean anything?) and Shopping for Blood's "I am the new Scottish gentry/Anglified vowels - sub-London thoughts" (which means a lot to us Welshies and, let's face it, anyone of us second-class citizens that doesn't live in the Big Smoke!!). There is also an eminently loveable middle 8 in the latter with a huge, sarcastic "HI THERE, I CAN ONLY AGREE!" Shout this to your heart's content, and get drunk!

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"..WORE HIS QUIFF VENETIAN STYLE"

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Anticlimactic but promising

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The next big thing!

A strange man to take your group name from. But the music isn't as strange as the name. It's actually the kind of music you love from the first time you hear it, and then you just can’t help falling more and more in love with it every time you hear it.

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