Well talk about wrong footing your audience - 'Forever And Ever' opens in a gothic swirl of chanting and bells before settling into a Krautrock throb that tries to fool you that something by Neu! or Cluster has slipped through the net and landed at number one. But wait....what's this....the scary monster mask is soon ripped off to reveal the bastard offspring of Les McKeown and Mickie Most grinning like the village idiot underneath with the promise to "love you forever and everrrrrrrrrrrr". Oh.It tries to regain composure by having a second bite at the melodrama at the second round of verses but by then it's way too late; the cat is out of the bag and the discerning listener is horrified to discover that 'Forever And Ever' is simple bubblegum tarted up in it's big brother's prog record collection with only the sheer bloody cheek of it all saving it from the toilet of pop history (that and the fact it's a neat illustration of 'What Midge Did' before Ultravox and Band Aid).*
* Actually, there was a time when I'd brand any music trying to pass itself off as something it wasn't as 'Slik Music'. The problem was, this only really works when it's written down and then only when the other parties have a) heard of Slik and b) know my opinion of them. Kind of makes my earlier mickey taking of Tony Orlando and his 'Knock Three Times' code look like so much hubris really. Ah well.
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