Quality Street

Quality Street is debut (and only) album of World Of Twist. The music is the sort of indie pop/rock that refers a lot to earlier decades, mainly 1960s psychedelic pop and rock. So it's no wonder this band was a big inspiration to Oasis. They considered naming their band after "Sons of the Stage" and Liam covered this song with Beady Eye. Three songs have a bit of a Madchester dance sound: "Sweets", "The Storm" and "Life and Death". To my surprise this combines rather well with the other songs. All-in-all this album is a pleasant, though not essential addition to the user list.

I can see why this would have a cult following, but also why it didn't quite take off (to the extent there's not a proper streaming download available). Many inspired moments, but a fair amount of weak material as well. Patchy. I like the Madchester sound though and wasn't at all sorry to be introduced to this.

This reminds me of a very early users list submission that I've been coming back to regularly, "Loss" by Mull Historical Society. Same kind of "where the fuck did you dig this up" psychedelic indie pop pick that I ended up actually enjoying quite a bit. Fun time. Strong 3/5.

Okay, so the fact that there was obviously the stone roses and the happy Mondays does imply that there would be sort of a second or third tier level of Madchester. And this very much that it sounds like a album of James demos (no disrespect to James as they were ah my favourite of the Manchester bands of the sort of baggy era). It's not awful. It has an entertaining rolling stones cover on it.

It's okay. Really feel, this far into the user list, that people are running out of ideas. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

This was fine. But not remarkable

Not bad

Indie pop, alternative dance, Madchester, neo-psychedelia. Ni fu ni fa.