Kaiser Chiefs, Employment Reviews

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Good Points: Will there ever be such a great indie track as I Predict A Riot

Bad Points: A lot of the tracks are too similar

General comments: Employment is a good debut from Kaiser Chiefs who are slightly overrated especially after they won 3 Brit awards beating the masters Coldplay for best band. Some great songs here though.

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I got a free copy of the Kaiser Chiefs Employment from a friend, but I must say I was really disappointed. I just think they are so overrated and not a patch on the second division punk bands of the late seventies who they imitate, and who weren't that good in the first place anyway. They also seem a bit arrogant. "You are not that good lads!" Don't pretend you are. It's just vaguely interesting post-modern singalong rubbish for the student brigade, and the young macho lads about town. Give me S ...

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Kaiser Chiefs, Employment - This is one of the year's most highly anticipated debuts, and any band that can start a song with the line "Watching the people get lairy / is not very pretty I tell thee," is definitely worth a listen. Unfortunately, that lyric is probably the highlight of an album which, while decent, does not fulfill the promise of the early singles.

Where the Kaiser Chiefs are good, they are very good, such as on "I Predict a Riot," "Oh My God," "Everyday I Love You Less and ...