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    "Back For Good"genre: Alternative Cover Songs
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    One thing often missing from UK indie bands, with their far-off gazes and sweeping string-backed epics is a sense of humour. When did you last see Thom Yorke cracking a joke between numbers or Liam Gallagher pulling out a rubber chicken midway through a song? Well, bizarre drug-addled experiences aside, the answer is not very often. Southampton's Slow Smile however have no such pretentions. The decision to cover Take That's mighty teen knicker-wetting opus is amusing enough, but turning it into an electro-goth metallic machine that bears hardly any resemblance to the original tune is getting close to Vic and Bob level of genius. - Headcleaner zine
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    CD: Back For Good   Label: Rice Pudding Records
    Credits: (Gary Barlow) EMI Virgin Music Ltd 100%

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    I have, over the years written and recorded
    all my own stuff but listening to a Take
    That number I felt the urge to give it some
    extra edge I played it straight using their chords, then those chords got up and walked away so I had to find some other ones...Jimmy Possession -- Head of Music at Cambridge University Radio "The chords have been changed to protect the innocent: this is a Take That cover, though you'd be hard-pressed to tell by listening to it, you'd probably think you'd think you'd chanced upon Mark E. Smith jamming with half of the Pixies. Utterly brilliant...

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