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On the way into work, I found myself listening to one of the less lamented of the bands that formed the soundtrack to my last summer at University - Kula Shaker, in particular their first (and only even vaguely remembered) album, K.

Actually, it's not as bad as we remember.

The lyrics are almost unmitigated crap - from the gap-year faux-mysticism ("Govinda jaia jaia ... man, that gear's strong") to the nursery-rhyming gibberish ("It's a feeling like no other / Spending Easter with your mother") so typical of Britpop third-stringers like Bedazzled.
The line "All week long she's been waiting for her Knight on the town" is pretty hard to forgive too.

Musically, however, when it all comes together, it still holds up. When thy cast aside the more ridiculous fripperies, the core of the album is half a dozen songs that bring together all the more appealing elements of baggie Britpop, and add a reasonable dose of singalong tunework which always gets described as "Beatles-esque". The results - in partiular "Hey Dude" - can be surprisingly pleasurable.

As an album, you'll find it filed under "Oh right - I'd forgotten they made a whole album!", generally next to "Spiders" by Space.

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With thanks to karohemd:

Great road-signs of the world

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( Quote from Mock the Week about religion - don't read if quotes about religion from a show called Mock the Week are likely to offend you )