Bad Manners - Loonee Tunes!
#450
November 1980
Bad Manners
Loonee Tunes!
Genre: 2-Tone
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Lorraine
Requisite 80s cover: A perfectly tepid, nearly Esquival version of “Tequila”. Meh.
Didn’t these guys JUST put out a record? Why another one so fast??
In 1980 there’s quite a bit of Two-Tone stuff going on, with Bad Manners, Specials and Madness. And none of it really sends me to the moon. Of all of them, I hew closer to Madness because, where Bad Manners wants to appear “Loonee”, Madness really pulls it off.
There are a few fun dance hall moments, like “Back in 60”, but, all in all it’s sort of listless and uninteresting.
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