Track Listing

1. Checkin’ It Out
2. Gettin’ Enough??
3. Is There Anybody Out There (Kickin’ Off)
4. Is She Ready?
5. I’ve Been Had
6. I Never Noticed
7. Figure It Out
8. Me & My Life
9. Fighters
10. She Dances On The Stage
11. Get Delirious
12. Rachel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6070 in Music
• Released on: 2006-12-04
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Having set out his pseudo-punk stall with his first single "Checkin' It Out", which hit number three in the UK Charts in September 2006, Rock School winner Lil Chris – a cheeky 16-year old from Lowestoft who looks three years younger but puts on live performances as if he were five years older – now offers the world his debut album. Allegedly penned whilst bunking off school, Lil' Chris continues its author's willful domination of the punk-pop sound with songs like "Is There Anybody Out There?", the electronically-charged "Getting Enough", "Me And My Life" and the quirky "Is She Ready". The results, as with the debut single, are mixed. Chris' brattish, high-pitched voice is full of unconvincing warbles and wails - it doesn't quite back up the supposedly angry stance as much as it should. The highly derivative songwriting also doesn't do much to convince, but while he project doesn't offer anything in terms of truly serious musical merit, Chris himself is full of youthful verve and does deliver on the entertainment front.--Danny McKenna

Customer Reviews

well grounded..........
I'll be honest from the start. I have only heard the two singles, which as bubble gummy pop rock go are not half bad, whilst not being my bag per see.
However, I have this week had the pleasure of meeting this young ( and he is very young in this industry )man, and he seems polite , well grounded, has a good head on his young shoulders, has a good knowledge of the music business for his young age, is not up his own wotzit, and is doing his driving lessons at the same driving school as me this week.
He seems prepared to go with the flow, whichever way the music trend takes him. Whilst this is not necessarily honest to one genre exactly, it shows he may be business minded. I wish him good luck, and that he will need in a business that is cut throat and changing so fast.
Good luck Lil Chris.

He tried.
This is just some chav and the novelty of him sounding about 5 will soon wear of. It just makes him annoying not cool. Someone should shoot him. He is a disgrace to the music industry.

However very little of his songs are quite catchy and he's done pretty well with this album and it still beats lots of rubbish music out there today but I do think that it's a complete waste of money.

Better Than You'd Think
Lil' Chris should by all rights rubbish. The "star" of some godforsaken reality show (Gene Simmons' Rock School) who has not long hit 16 puts out a record after unceremoniously parting with the band set up for said show...it doesn't offer up much hope does it? Especially when one considers the album bears the hallmarks of writer/producer Ray Hedges. Sure his acts have racked up the hits over the years (Westlife, Ronan Keating, B*Witched, Emma Bunton to name but a few) but he's hardly up there with, say, Xenomania for producing any-one's idea of cutting edge 21st Century Pop. But check in your prejudices at the door and you will find a lot to enjoy here.

Yes it could be said that a lot of this album is derivative (which in a way proves my point about Hedges) but to be honest half the fun of the album is listening out for these "reference points". A little of the Buzzcocks here, some Sex Pistols over there, a dash of Elvis Costello over here....

It is fair to say though that whilst the two lead singles, Checkin It Out and Getting Enough??, were something special the rest of the album does tend to drift into "ordinary" a touch too often. Songs like Is There Anybody Out There and I've Been Had lack the manic charm of the singles and whilst they are catchy enough they are just a little too ordinary, musically, to stand out from the pack. Having said that though, the likes of Is She Ready? and Rachel (his paean to the former S-Club star, which is worth it for the mad lyrics alone) jump out of the stereo and lodge in your brain with great speed.

Yes, Lil' Chris' voice isn't the most soothing you'll ever hear, to be honest at times he sounds a LOT younger than 16, and over a prolonged period of time it does begin to grate. There is also a little too much here that seems to have been done by the numbers. But what the album lacks in the musical "merit" stakes, is more than made up for by the quality it has in the entertainment stakes. Frankly if listening to this doesn't bring a smile to your face somebody better check your pulse!