ARTIST: TV SMITH
TITLE: NOT A BAD DAY
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: TEENAGE REBEL RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: TR115

TRACK LIST:

Your Ticket Out Of Here
Sugar Crash
Not A Bad Day
Soon As I Found It I Lost It
Driver Or Passenger
One Million Pounds
Earthbound

For Every Hit There's A Miss
Swimming In The Flood
Like A Rocket
The Future Used To Be Better
The Revolution The Same 

INFO:

Five years on from his last solo effort, Generation Y, TV Smith's fifth solo album in many ways tracks back to the moods and textures of his debut, the 1983 masterpiece Channel Five, as he re-forms the fabulous lineup that created that set, which included guitarist Tim Renwick and keyboard player Tim Cross, for a collection that could not be further from one's expectations if it tried. The first shock comes with the first bars, "Your Ticket Out of Here," one of several familiar songs from Smith's acoustic live set, is redesigned as a lurching, semi-funk stomp, a rearrangement that brings the so-desperately catchy chorus chiming out with brutal clarity and enforces the lyric with a new clarity. Though pulsating electricity remains the thread that binds the entire album together, the arrangements themselves never allow you to settle.Renwick's guitar, a star of every show it visits, is especially ear-catching, alternating between meaty riffs and emotive flourishes, while Cross' keyboards are never less than mood-melting, a combination that allows Smith's vocal more room to maneuver than he has enjoyed since the days of Cheap.

(Allmusic.com)