IN BRIEF : ** 1/2 Boom Crash Opera, “These Here are Crazy Times,†Giant/Warner Bros.:<i> Albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor) to five (a classic). : </i>
The best songs on this Aussie band’s second album sound like an apolitical Midnight Oil. The political songs sound like average INXS. Catchy stuff--even rocks good at some turns. But what’s the point of an apolitical Oil or a political INXS?
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