Track Listing

1. Too Hot
2. Stray Bullet
3. Living On The Streets
4. Lost It All
5. Friday Night
6. You Got A Problem
7. Running For Cover
8. Take Me Back
9. What Had Happened
10. Got Our Love
11. This Sick World
12. Bottle Of Wine
13. Beautiful
14. Baby (Party Dress)
15. You Just Can't Have It All

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97547 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Welcome to Poppy's sees the Fun Lovin' Criminals further embracing the tequila sunrise and bad Hawaiian shirt phase of their career that they launched with 2001's Loco. Just as real-life gangsters inevitably grow into cuddly caricatures, so Huey, Fast and new drummer Frank the Rhythm Man, New York's charismatic wannabe hoods, have swapped back-alley cool and wiseguy chic for tacky glitz and a fluffier take on street life. Now more Tony Soprano than Scarface, Huey shows his sensitive side on cosy swayers "Got Our Love" and "Beautiful", even intoning on "You Just Can't Have It All" that regrets, he may have a few. Either growing old gracefully or taking the mobster theme to its obvious country club conclusion, they're amiable, if unspectacular, tunes. Likewise, "This Sick World" is their familiar street-smart shuffle mellowed, while "Friday Night" lounges to the point of coma; albeit a very pleasurable one. Yet, even at their naffest (and Welcome to Poppy's doesn't pretend to be anything other than camp fun) they manage to pull a handful of absolute winners out of the bag. With cheesy winks and irrepressible choruses, the shimmy of "Too Hot", the bump of "Stray Bullet" and the slapstick blues of "You Got a Problem" would make even those who despise the FLC's gangster shtick sing-along. --Dan Gennoe

Chronique amazon.fr
Frimeurs, branleurs, fêtards et peu enclins aux "dialogues constructifs", les Fun Lovin'Criminals apparaissent dans leurs plus beaux habits avec Welcome To Poppy's. Des guitares qui laminent en puissance ("Baby"), des compositions qui n'hésitent pas à flirter avec la pop bubble-gum (sévèrement burinée quand même), comme dans "Lost It All", et des vocaux maîtrisés sur tous les styles, nos FLC semblent ici dans une verve jouissive. Ils rappent jovialement ("What Has Happened ?"), se prennent pour Michael Franles ("Got Our Love"), et chantent la romance ("You Just Can't Have it All"). Une musique cosmopolitée, éclatée, mais tenue comme une grande maison, par des garçons au goût sûr, qui ne mélangent les styles que parce que cette ville qui les voit vivre ne sait faire autrement. Le son de New York, d'une rue à l'autre. --José Ruiz

Album Details
The Criminals Resurface on Sanctuary after a Long Tenure at EMI. This Album features Live Favorite "Baby", a Great Punk Rock Tune, "Too Hot" which is a Classic Fun Lovin' Criminals Tune, "Lost it All", a Three Minute Burts of Guitars and 'ooh Ooh' and 'hey' Backing Shouts.