This Is the Day… This Is the Hour… This Is This!

Tylsää brittigenresekamelskaa. 2/5

Hadn't heard of this one before...seems like it was very regionalized to the UK at the time. Still was a fun (if not samey) listen. 3.5/5

ah now i know where Girltalk got it from.

Quite a few different sounds mixed together here. It mostly works, although it definitely feels like an album of its time. It's kinda cheesy and I'm not super into the vocals but the instrumentals are generally pretty fun.

80s pop nonsense, with a strong hip-hop influence which lifts it above the worst of that accursed decade - but only just!

I can dig it, but not for this long.

Tell everyone in the 1001+ community you're a virgin without telling everyone in the 1001+ community that you are a virgin. Not that there's anything wrong with being a virgin! Except.. when you listen to a band who has singles like "Beaver Patrol", you obviously and desperately don't want to be a virgin.

An incredibly precise snapshot of the 90s starting to hatch out of the shell of the 80s, meaning it's a little bit stupid & annoying, but also somehow extremely charming.

Also since I complain a lot about album length, especially on releases from around this era, I'd like to shout out that this one actually would have completely fallen apart if they had cut it to 30-40min. It really needed this amount of runtime to simmer properly.

Cool sounds, okay music

This is a fun album, but ultimately an unremarkable one for me. I already knew the big singles, and after a couple of full listens I feel the rest of the record sits in that “typical product of its era” zone. It’s energetic, experimental, and full of late-’80s social commentary, but not always consistent.

The highlights are obvious: “Def.Con.One,” “Can U Dig It,” and “Wise Up Sucker” still land. Those song I should really add to some of my driving playlists. Outside of those, the album loses some steam. Tracks like “Inject Me” and “Wake Up! Time to Die…” haven’t aged well. They lean too heavily on late-’80s clichés and the thinner production makes them feel a bit dated rather than charming.

It’s a decent album and it shows a band willing to take risks, but not every experiment works. For fans of alternative dance rock from that period, it’s worth hearing. For me, it has its limits. It's not an album I'll return to.

Not for me.