![]() ![]() ![]() Nineties Swedish hitmakers Roxette called their greatest hits album ‘Don’t Bore Us… Get To The Chorus’, unwittingly summing up the Ash approach in one succinct soundbite.ĭumped inappropriately into the Britpop soup on their first forays to the capital, there was always the feint whiff of a novelty act about them. Neither big city hipsters nor Face-friendly style icons, the secret of Ash‘s success seems to be – in classic teen pop style – that they always acted like they were only as good as their last single. With Ash, understatement has never been an issue. There is no other group who have taken on the mantle of the great singles bands of yore – the Buzzcocks, the Undertones, the Specials, the Teardrop Explodes, the Jam, the Smiths – in quite the same jubilant manner as Tim Wheeler’s crack pop battallion. There is no better way to understand quite what they do so well than with this lavishly presented package of singles. The Manga artwork for Ash‘s greatest hits album says it all – at once heroically clueless and unspeakably cool, their clumsy cartoon image has masked the fact that Ash are one of the most three-dimensionally brilliant groups of the modern age. ![]()
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