All You Need Is Ears
If you really think that, then there is no hope for you. Southpaw may not be his best I admit, but you've got to look at it as an off the cuff high octane experiment... and I think that is difficuly for some people to take. The Boy Racer was a great single. Dagenham Dave was very funny. The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils is an awesome piece of work, very bleak, very epic. Reader Meet Author is a great song, a great lyric, a fantastic stab at your typical NME hack. All in all, it's a great record, but one that's ever going to win over the doubters, such as yourself.