List | C | Celebrate The Nun | 'Meanwhile' CD 1989

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Ordinary Town	4:24
2.	My Jealousy	4:40
3.	Will You Be There	3:37
4.	Maybe Tomorrow	4:03
5.	Don't You Go	3:59
6.	She's A Secretary	3:16
7.	Cry No More	4:13
8.	Stay Away	4:42
9.	Could Have Been	3:56
10.	So	4:33
11.	Unattainable Love	4:43
12.	Strange	5:10
	Total	51:20

Comments:

Seconde-rate synthpop band that devolved into the utterly horrible and despicable cheesy rave-poppers Scooter. While CTN were pretty cheesy in their day they could be kind of catchy at times, whereas Scooter is purely annoying. Time and time again I ask myself how they can produce such nonsense and not be embarrassed by it ("Fahs-tah! Hah-dah! Scuu-tah!"). Now, I'm not just a grumpy old kid-of-the-80:s who only loves synthpop - I have my share of techno and dance music, it's just that Scooter are so incredibly bad at it. Sooooo bad. I'd even rather be subjected to the pink bubblegum flavour-of-the-day teenybopper crap than Scooter. Really.

Enough about Scooter. CTN sound like a cheap version of Camouflage with a mid-80 synth-cheese twist. Kind of. It's pretty good and catchy at times, but it's generally a bit too slick and smooth to quite suit me, and there's something about his voice I don't quite like. The chorus is usually pretty catchy, but the verse lyrics leave something to be desired; often a kind of romaticised "I did this, she did that" dull everyday life description list of actions.

Had I heard CTN in, say, 1986 when I was young and not too critical about things I might have really enjoyed it, but now... nah. It leaves me pretty indifferent. Since I'm quite interested in music it's a good reference point as to what was to come later, though. They didn't always suck immensely, just a little bit. And now I'll go put on some music I really like to get my mood up again.

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