Album Review: The Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back (2005)

I don't have any particular right to like this album at all. It reeks of all the makings of a horrible album, and in truth it probably is. But damn it, I like it. In continuity with all things 'Darkness', I still admire the desperate attempt at looking and sounding retro, and the image that comes with being something one actually isn't. And they've also done a good job in sounding like Queen after a kick in the nuts. In fact, the only thing they've really stuffed up on here is the inclusion of track 10, "Blind Man." It is truly awful. In fact, my advice would be to avoid it like you'd avoid a woman with a conspicuous bulge in her jeans. But having said that, it is otherwise a worthy successor to their debut album, Permission to Land, which sounded more like Def Leppard and AC/DC than this one does, which as mentioned earlier, tends to lean more toward 1970s Queen. And the most worthy tracks? "One Way Ticket", "Knockers", "Dinner Lady Arms", in my opinion. But I'll let you decide which is best. A-