“Something For The Weekend” claims pedigree with Queens Of The Stone Age and The Pixies, but The Chemists‘ sad support slot with The Bluetones shows their true place in the musical map: awful also-rans. If “Tazmanian Devil” (presumably referring to the cartoon rather than the actual animal) was as excitable as its titular character, this single might have been far more interesting.
Apparently this single was co-produced by Kevin Bacon but I can’t believe it’s the same one. Although, I guess, it’ll make playing “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon” more fun if you can link films to music and back again…
The Chemists are Bristolian. This is immaterial… except that they all used to live above a chemists shop, and I’d love to know which one, as I’m from Bristol too. Of course, the idiot cover designers have, ironically, put a picture of a well-known barber’s shop on the front to illustrate the song title. Ha ha!
Sadly, that about sums up “Something For The Weekend”: everything seems a little confused and half-thought out. The turgid and plodding songs are occasionally enlivened by a moderately rousing chorus before sinking back into a mire of prosaic and unoriginal pontificating.
The lumpen and clichéd drums are unavoidable in the mix and the mention of a lead guitarist in the credits is a blatant misnomer: weary recycler of staidly formulaic tosh would be more accurate. The Chemists appear to have no idea how to gel a piece of noise into a shining song.
“Something For The Weekend” is two songs too many. My God, it’s poor.
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