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    Leicester England's Diesel Park West has been cranking out stellar, topical rock'n'roll since their debut, Shakespeare Alabama, from 1989. The band's latest effort, Not Quite the American Dream, was made during the lockdown of 2020 and explores more thought provoking avenues all put to sturdy rhythms and hung on superb melodies. "Secondary Modern Man" is the best song Kinks song Ray Davies never wrote and "Best of You" could quite possibly make Paul Weller bristle with jealousy. If you are at all interested in classic British rock'n'roll with a little bit of social commentary thrown in the mix, this is the record for YOU.

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John Butler: Eventually you’ve got to stop being a rebel and martyr. Back off a bit. He who fights and runs away does live to fight another day. Shuffle with it. I couldn’t possibly have written this 25 years ago.

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Justify justify means justify the end
Get away with anything, live to tell the tale
You can even hit on me I will not defend
It’s the green not the principle
That swings it in the end

In the end you’lll grow to believe it
And then you’ll be strong and free
Justify means justify justify the end
You can reach infinity
Call everyone your friend

Don’t feel nothing feel like running
Feel like getting out
Been so long on the treadmill
Crowded out by doubt
All the martyred handwringers
Practitioners of sound
Really don’t care ‘bout me
And wish that I’d check out
Of their lives that used to be so ordered
Like their wives so fragrant, neat, and trim

Box of air ain't really like the bbc
Just another illusion made flesh for she and he

I have never been the same since what they did to me
There’s a cold case on the file lets open it and see
What it is
oh that they hold against me
What they have
but don’t want me to see
Justify means justify means justify the end
Get away with anything and rise another day

Justify means justify means justify the end
Re-write history keep the mystery
Tell them you’re for sale

Justify means justify, justify the end
Surrender shuffle on the double live to tell the tale
Justify means justify, justify the end
Surrender shuffle on the double live to tell the tale

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from Not Quite the American Dream, released May 6, 2022

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