Nice review (by Dave Thompson, who else?):
https://www.goldminemag.com/columns/new ... ict-others
TV Smith’s a busy chap. A new solo album is scheduled for this year, and a joint project with long time associate Richard Strange, too. A song recorded with his college-days band, Sleaze, recently turned up on the soundtrack to Young Sheldon; a newly remastered tape of The Adverts’ first demo is on its way.
And a summer 2022 festival gig with his sometimes band The Bored Teenagers, rampaging through the Adverts’ repertoire, was followed less than 24 hours later by a visit to the studio where they recorded this.
An 18 track single take “best of” the band, Replay The Adverts is, first and foremost, a reminder that, even with almost 50 years having elapsed since these songs were written, Smith was among the most visionary songwriters not simply of that age, but of the entire rock era. Songs like “Bored Teenagers,” “”No Time to be 21,” “One Chord Wonders” and, most prescient of all, “Great British Mistake,” still resonate; still pack a currency that is as relevant today as it was back then.
True, the Smith voice has changed since he was 21, but age has not depleted its urgency or its energy, while the band behind him simply storms through a repertoire that draws prime cuts not only from the Adverts’ original two LPs, but also a couple of B-sides. It’s a killer set.
All eighteen tracks are featured on the CD; the vinyl — a handsome beast, whose earliest pressings also included a signed photo — features fifteen, with the three outliers pressed onto a 7-inch single. Pick up either, pick up both. And let’s all sing “One Chord Wonders” together.
Well I haven't watched "Young Sheldon", but if I had, I wouldn't have believed my ears when hearing TV's Sleaze in there!!
