[01] Julia Says[02] After The Love Goes
[03] Somewhere Somehow
[04] Gypsy Girl
[05] Don't Want To Forgive Me Now
[06] She Might Never Know
[07] Someone Like You
[08] Love Is My Shepherd
[09] She's All On My Mind
[10] Morning
[11] Home Tonight
[12] Love Is All Around
amazon: The sales of Wet Wet Wet's fifth album had everything to do with Four Weddings And A Funeral (featuring, of course, "Love Is All Around") but not a terrible amount to do with the quality of the record. Thirteen weeks at number one with a cover version can place an awful lot of pressures on a band, and, at some level, the Glasgow quartet must have been aware that their songwriting style simply didn't lend itself to providing a natural follow-up. That said, there are moments here that remind us where Wet Wet Wet's roots do lie. "She's All On My Mind" and "Somewhere Somehow" return to the gentle Memphis inflections that occasionally seeped into earlier albums, but they're all too often swamped by the kind of lavish production that bands usually turn to when they're feeling self-conscious. One wonders to what degree the pressures of stardom eventually turned the band in on each other and Mart Pellow to drugs. But for all the money spent on it, Picture This could do with some of the youthful joie de vivre found on 1986's Popped In Souled Out.
(amg 6/10)
