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As Good As It Gets collects Gene's complete singles output, spanning 
1994-99, plus a smattering of album tracks, all of which serve as a 
fitting tribute to a seriously undervalued band. Gene have long been 
saddled with the tag "Smiths copyists" and, let's face it, there's no 
escaping the mighty Manc miserablists' paw-prints on their early material. 
Their first two--admittedly rather fine--singles, "For The Dead" and 
"Be My Light, Be My Guide", spotlight Steve Mason's jangling Marr-esque 
arpeggio guitar and the Rozza's Morrissey-like phrasing and Wildean way 
with a witty epithet. However, they gradually moulded their own 
distinctive oeuvre, majoring in elegantly attired urban vignettes such 
as "London, Can You Wait", lifted from 1995's debut album Olympian. Other 
highlights include the stomping rock & soul of "Haunted By You", the 
magnificently lachrymose drinking lament "Fill Her Up" and, of course, 
those languidly crooned ballads "Olympian" and "You'll Never Walk Again". 


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