Wet Wet Wet
The Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet often comes up dry dry dry in the originality department. Back in 1988, the quartet topped the British chart—but only with a cover version of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends." Their breakthrough in America came on the movie soundtrack of Four Weddings and a Funeral with a tune first done by the Troggs in 1968, "Love Is All Around." The song is included on Picture This, a pastiche of pop clichés performed with competent musicianship, sterling production values and not an atom of inspiration. But it's an eclectic sort of mediocrity, skipping from the imitation-Badfinger-imitating-the-Beatles of "Julia Says" to the cloying folk-rock of "Gypsy Girl" to the piano-man pap of "Love Is My Shepherd." Baa. (London)
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