Bad Dads Club – Good To Be Loved
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Pop collective Bad Dads Club release their first single.
I have to say that I’m not familiar with Bad Dads Club or any of its
personnel, and in many ways that helps as my judgement isn’t clouded. It would appear that core members, Steve
Blood and Andy Lee, have been around the block one or two times.
Steve Blood is a bit of a production whizz and remixer. He’s been admired by Mary Ann Hobbs and Steve
Lamacq in their Radio 1 days, remixed for Afrika Bambaata and run Woof Records
in the 90s. Performing as Wide Receiver,
some of music has been used in British movies Dog Eat Dog (Breakbeat Sushi) and
The Debt Collector’s title track.
Andy Lee has been a professional singer/songwriter for well over
thirty years. Writing at Polygram and
rubbing shoulders with Del Amitri and Roachford, he’s enjoyed his fair share of
success.
Together with Carl Mann whose guitar work incudes sessions with Sleeper
and Kylie, they present to us Good To Be Loved.
Now I like a good pop song, it’s a skill to write something that’s not
only commercially successful but also stands the test of time, and that holy
grail, the classic pop song, is a creature that doesn’t often emerge from
sleep.
Much as Good To Be Loved is a good catchy song, it’s really
throwaway pop that will be popular now but forgotten in twelve months. And it is catchy – although after listening
to the nine remixes here, it’s probably difficult not to sing it afterwards
anyway.
The Tuscan Leather remix which heads the EP is like an Erasure
b-side. That’s not being critical of
either group. It’s a compliment to Bad
Dads Club that they can be thought of in the same mould as the duo who really have
created classic pop over the years, in fact Andy’s voice isn’t dissimilar to
that of Andy Bell. It’s a nice enough
song, good chorus and melody, and some nice effects.
The song is slowed down on the Dreampop and Sunday Morning mixes,
again nice enough but a little too similar for my liking. For me the EP come alive with the Audiotrip
version. It’s a powerhouse of a disco
house remix and is head and shoulders above everything else here. It would, I imagine go down a storm in
British nightclubs and I suspect that that is where Bad Dads Club will have
their success.
It’s all been done before, yes, but there will always a market for a
good pop song.
7.5/10
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