A Maximum HighShed SevenGenre: RockDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION SHED SEVEN A Maximum High (1996 UK 12-track CD including Going For Gold Bully Boy and Where Have You Been Tonight? sixteen page booklet picture sleeve) AMAZON Perpetual underdogs Shed Seven seldom received critical acceptance and the reasons why are writ large over A Maximum High. There's failed attempts at glamour (Going For Gold) there's thwarted over-reaching ambition (Getting Better) and there's whining unrequited love (This Day Was Ours) that combine to suggest that Shed Seven were never quite the match to their Britpop contemporaries. A Maximum High condemned Shed Seven as a poor man's Oasis. Divorce yourself from Shed Seven's sullied reputation though and A Maximum High is on the whole a fairly likeable pop record. On Standby and Where Have You Been Tonight aim to provide a joyous link between The Smiths and the Rolling Stones and almost achieve their lofty ambitions while Bully Boy and the fractured closer Parallel Lines prove that Shed Seven sometimes occasionally can be really very good. --Louis Pattison
