Mcfly - Just My Luck
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Artist: McflyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
- I Wanna Hold You
- I've Got You
- Obviously
- Ultraviolet
- Five Colours in Her Hair
- Too Close for Comfort
- All About You
- That Girl
- Unsaid Things
- I'll Be O.K.
- Just My Luck
- Memory Lane
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Hit: 5 Stars
What do you get when you cross The Beatles with The Beach Boys, and pepper them with influences from various rock acts throughout the three-and-a-half decades since? You get British pop/rock band McFly. While it's true that comparisons to those two landmark sixties groups have been doled out liberally over the years, very few groups have come this close to sounding like their direct musical descendants. This quartet of Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones (both on lead vocals and guitars), Dougie Poynter (bass) and Harry Judd (drums) seem to possess an uncanny natural gift for the vocal harmony, the instrumental melody, and the skilled tunesmithery that won The (Original) Fab Four such a massive and ardent fan base.
The album kicks off with "I Wanna Hold You", a rollicking power-pop love song with a string section (and SCORCHING guitar solo!) thrown in for good measure. Next up is "I've Got You", which sandwiches a crunchy-guitar chorus between subdued verses, and perhaps owes itself more to bands like Blink-182 than The Beatles. Then the album shifts into a lower gear with a pair of buoyant mid-tempo ballads, "Obviously" and "Ultraviolet", which more readily show their impressive song-crafting skills. The good songs don't stop there; the enchanting slow ballad "All About You" and the infectiously clever sing-along "That Girl" (the latter of which brings to mind Huey Lewis and the News) are two of my favorites, followed by the melancholy "Unsaid Things" and the irresistibly optimistic "I'll Be OK". Trading off on lead vocal duties, Fletcher's airy, slightly nasal timbre (reminiscent of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong) provides a perfect contrast to Jones' huskier, more rugged voice.
This disc is actually a blend of the group's first two UK albums, with about 35% of the songs coming from their debut "Room On The 3rd Floor" and 60% from their second album "Wonderland", with one brand new song (the title track) included. While the two UK albums each have their own feel -- "3rd Floor" symbolizing the group's carefree adolescence, while "Wonderland" represents a more focused step toward adulthood -- and are both worth buying on their own merits, here they blend together quite nicely, offering arguably the most appealing songs from each import release, with only one of the "3rd Floor" tracks ("Five Colours In Her Hair") receiving a thorough sonic makeover, replacing the Monkees-like playfulness of the original version with a more raucous thrash. Chances are you'll never be compelled at any point in this album to hit the "next track" button, and the disc will be over long before you want it to be.
Don't dismiss McFly as a "boyband" just because they're good-looking young guys who play generally light music (and have landed a cushy tie-in promotion through a popular teen movie). The writing and instrumentation -- and above all, the innate talent -- are all their own. Give these guys the chance they deserve; you just might re-discover why "pop" music is so much fun.
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