In the four years since the release of Simply Red’s album ‘Home’ I have been blissfully unaware of their positively awful cover version of Bob Dylan’s venomous ‘Positively 4th Street’. All that changed yesterday when I and a number of other captive eaters were subjected to this at a self service restaurant. How Mick Hucknall can presume to bring anything to this song is beyond me. What he does instead is make a bland makeover that strips it of the rage and makes a MOR monstrosity. There ought to be a law against such horrors and restaurants proposing to play such music should give a public health warning e.g. Be advised that the sounds you hear during your meal may result in convulsions and vomiting.
