The alarm bells should ring when you learn that Greg Cagle (vocals/guitar) and Rick Nash (horns) from Charlotte North Carolina. are perfectly happy for this album of so-called 'smooth-jazz' to be branded as "cocktail friendly".
Sure enough, the eleven hyper-laid back songs catalogue, with no sense of irony, profligate spending and jet set lifestyles.
They are nothing less than easy listening hymns to consumer culture smugly celebrating a world of conspicuous wealth and sex as commodity.
There are songs of fast cars (Road Kinda Cool) making love all day and night on a Caribbean Island (Mmmm...Paradise) or wheeler dealing and mixing it with the rich and famous (Black Tie Affair).
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The subject matter is as unimaginative as the lyrics. A Little Bit of Attention, for example, describes how lover boy plans to sweep his lady off her feet : "I'll take you shopping, buy you some clothes, we'll go to dinner, then we'll catch an evening show".
This is an album that any right-minded person with taste will find both musically and morally reprehensible.
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