Title: More Than Just Mindless Fun
Product review: At first listen, this CD sounds like it's just fun, danceable bubble-gum pop. Well, the fun and danceable part is true, but it's much more than that. You will find that most of these songs are searing social commentaries. Take the title song for instance, which is about the shallow class of society that is so concerned with outward appearance and social standing that they don't even notice their own children starving. Yet the song is as foot-tapping as anything written in the 80s. Heaton's voice is an instrument in itself, and it is, in turn, haunting, joyful, anguished, mocking, empty and proud. The Housemartins (and their subsequent incarnation, The Beautiful South) were far too good to remain in obscurity. This is their best album, and it belongs in the music collections of vapid pop fans and music snobs alike.
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