Just Jack - Glory Days

Straight from the garish sixties artwork and trumpet introduction you can tell Just Jack is out to kick start your summer. The charmingly naive lyrics and sing-along chorus mean comparisons with Lilly Allen are hard to avoid. But as you hear Jack rhyme 'Joss Stone' with 'ice cream cones' why not smile and let Glory Days into your life? On the other hand, the Just Jack generation will consist of hundreds of Londoners whistling his tunes perpetually. They will make quirky pop-culture references to each other whilst living in their eternal summer paradise. Incapable of anything but basic rhymes, they are doomed to a future of songs sounding like what Damon Albarn wrote when he was 6. You decide. [Luc Benyon]