Poll: best song from 1988-1995

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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

Yeah, a half-ripe apple to a rotten orange. Peter's songs on Mr Wonderful are exactly that, they're just about about enough to make you forget the repetitive nature of Jeremy's. Of Time , only Blow by blow really grates. It's a Christine-heavy selection box,and on occasion quite fun or moody. However, as a six-piece, the band only very rarely gels (on a couple of Bekka's songs); maybe if Christine and Dave had got on, something more interesting might have come out of it- as it is they barely on the same page and only nominally seem to be bandmates. It's a much better listen than its predecessor,though.

Yes to this. Dave Mason (like Dave Walker!) appears to have been a key force in their live shows at that time. But on record his work doesn’t fit with the rest of the songs.

On Time, not only do we get five very solid Christine songs (marred only by her tinny keys—so odd, since she has historically expertly layered keys on previous albums all that way back to 1971), but we get the Billy-Becca duets, which are youthful and exuberant. The opening cut and “Got It In for You” are delights. And they balance well against Christine’s moodier tracks.