Bob Geldof - How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell

Geldof has always said that from being a child in the 60's he has had two interests, music and politics, and this from a time "when the two were inseparable'. As a result he says he "understands and articulates the world through the rhetoric of rock `n roll". It seems to help him "frame his experiences and helps to make them understandable". Geldof is 58 1/2. Typically blunt, that is what he calls his latest outing (though its published title is `How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell', a title borrowed from an old music manual Geldof found in a second hand book shop). `How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell'/`58 1/2' may not seem like a continuation of the bleaker winter of 2001's "Sex, Age and Death". Its vitality and pervasive optimism would suggest not. But whereas on his last album Geldof mourned the grief and loss and rage that is the end of love, in this he celebrates its re-birth. He seems entirely bemused by this miracle of renewal. This is the man after all who 35 years ago wrote "Looking After No.1"! The 58 year old realises that that just isn't enough. This is great stuff. True stuff. No preening or posturing. Honest, funny, tender essentially human stuff. Very Geldof.

01. How I Roll
02. Blowfish
03. She's A Lover
04. To Live In Love
05. Silly Pretty Thing
06. Systematic 6 - Pack
07. Dazzled By You
08. Mary Says
09. Blow
10. Here's To You