ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE / The Road to Rampton (2007)

It's not enough reason to want own it but it's worth pointing out that ANL's ability to place lyrical satire and disaffection alongside comedy and not have one overwhelm the other surfaces in places, albeit sporadically. If only the music wasn't so bloody weak, safe and predicable.
I'm listening to Rampton as I type and it's depressing me. I'll need to go back to the classic début album afterwards to ease my pain.

Songs of Note: Turn To Shit; My God's Bigger than Yours

1½ short, sharp, shocks out of 5

ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE / We Are...The League (1982)

ANL are funny. The music is balls-out British Punk with real passion but the lyrics, covering everything from sexual perversions to self-defacing slogans with a ton of Fuck You, take the piss out of the things they love. It's anthemic tongue-in-cheek defiance delivered as a straight-faced offensive and it's glorious. It'll invigorate the youth, shock the middle-aged and make the aged titter. Their début album contains what's possibly the greatest punk love song ever recorded.

Songs of Note: Animal; Woman

5 Animal growls out of 5