If this type of woozy, late-night soul ballad is basically about making lurve, then this is positively SAFE SEX. Safe, (which is fine) as in very sensitive, very produced, very doleful ... but MUSHY. It drifts away in a cloud of gentle, dreamy bleu-urgh which at less than Gauloise length is all over a bit quickly. The presence on the B-side of Paul mooning over a string quartet ("Francoise") adds to the LP's impression that as a POP group, the Smooch Council have (for the moment) come and gone. (Roger Morton, Record Mirror, March 7, 1987)
One of the better tracks from the feeble Cost Of Loving LP, "Waiting" shows Paul Weller to be a lot happier at singing romantic ballads than grunting his way through all that uptempo "soul" stuff he's become so fond of in recent years. The back sleeve contains yet more ramblings from "The Cappucino Kid", this time a Sherlock Holmes-style short story about "the case of the twitching farmer". Weller is cast as Holmes with Mick "Morten" Talbot taking the role of the bumbling Dr Watson. How apt. (Barry McIlheney, Smash Hits, March 11, 1987)
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