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Track Listings

1	Learning How to Lose
2	Great Big City
3	It Doesn't Mean a Thing
4	Rocking Horse
5	I Just Don't Get It
6	She's Not Like All the Other Girls
7	God's Little Joke
8	Glen Campbell
9	Anybody Else
10	Missed That Train
11	Roll Round Here
12	A Lot Like You
13	Lighthouse
14	No Smoke Without Fire
15	I Love the Way
16	Shake a Leg
17	Annalee
18	Valentine

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2015 album from the veteran pop/pub rock band fronted by Mancunian singer/songwriter Clive Gregson. Any Trouble was signed to Stiff in 1980 and were touted by the press as the next Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Any Trouble's debut album Where Are All The Nice Girls was critically acclaimed. The band followed with Wheels In Motion (1981), then signed with EMI America before disbanding in 1984 after five LPs. In 2007, Any Trouble reunited for a new album Life In Reverse. Now they're back with more intelligent, melodic songs penned by Clive - a double album's worth of tunes entitled Present Tense. This follows Cherry Red's recent triple CD anthology of Any Trouble's Stiff recordings.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 5 x 0.39 inches; 2.89 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Cherry Red
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2015
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2015
Label ‏ : ‎ Cherry Red
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0148IFR9S
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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J. Jerome

Good, not great

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019

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Either Clive Gregson's voice has deteriorated, or else the engineer decided not to feature it, because all the songs sound like he's singing on the other side of the room from the rest of the band.

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alneman

Bit disappointed, rather a curates egg, good in parts,but also some filler songs that pass by rather unmemorably as well

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2016

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I am a big fan of Clive Gregson's 5 albums with Christine Collister, and also have bought and like most of his solo albums. His original group Any Trouble released 3 albums back in the 1980's that virtually sank without trace, rated by some critics, but largely ignored by the record buying public. A few of the songs from his original band were memorably covered in a more stripped down acoustic version by Gregson and Collister on their brilliant debut Home and Away, like the track All the Time in the World, to great effect.
The original band got together some 30 years after they started to do a successful tour and produced this new album. It is a more electric group version of Clive's more recent solo output, but somehow many of the songs seem a bit similar in tempo, and tend to lack memorable hooks and choruses that stick in your mind. Nothing is terrible, the playing and singing is all good, but the songs themselves seem to wash over you ,one blending into another, and I find that little of it stays in my memory. Glen Campell, with its tribute trademark twangy country guitar stands out from the crowd, and was a single. Much of the rest tends to pass by pleasantly enough, but is not really grabbing the attention in the way that I know Clive's songs can.
In conclusion, rather lacking the spark and inspiration that might have been anticipated from the original band reuniting 3 decades on , the singing and playing is all passable, but generally the songs do not stand out , and it all seems rather samey, and not much sticks in my head .

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chezzer

Alot like you, Anybody else and Valentine are my picks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2015

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Now I am a big admirer of Gregsons work and Any Trubz have been a constant for me, but here I think they've missed a trick. There are songs that I want to burst into life, but, Gregsons tones mellow them down. I suppose we've all aged and so it seems have Any Trouble. This could be any Gregson album post Collister days. They are songs the older members of the family to listen to after the younsters have left the wedding. The party is over, and your refecting on the day. Alot like you, Anybody else and Valentine are my picks, but sadley after such hope and anticipation this is rather disappointing.

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neil nash

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2016

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good album

rob guillonard

Nice album

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2020

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Clive Gregson still write great songs

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