An Emotional Fish

This is the first CD single from An Emotional Fish's 1990 debut album. It includes the LP version, an extended version, and three B-sides. "Celebrate" is a solid song from the LP and is the most rocking one on the set. A live version would have fit in well on this single. Sadly, listeners are left with the extended version which, though nearly a minute longer, only repeats a bridge and a chorus from the song. And listeners are stuck with a live version of "Jonathan and Doodle Pip" (recorded at SFX) which is the An Emotional Fish take on "Daddy's gonna buy you a diamond ring." This track actually would fit in better on their second LP, Junk Puppets, but, as it is, the track sounds like a bad outtake from U2's Salome: The Achtung Baby Sessions. Yikes. "Brick It Up" is more orgasmic than the most self-indulgent Bono song. "Anyway" sounds like the Doors' song "The End," and is a worthly non-LP track. Overall, not a terrible single. But for a fan trying to find the band's out of print debut, it only partially satisfies. ~ JT Griffith, All Music Guide