Rating 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)

Isn't Tom Jones just fantastic! And isn't his new album, Praise and Blame just fantastic too! With it's wonderful spiritual mixture of Invisible Magic Friend fearing gospel songs and its deep southern blues melodies, this has to be one of the best music albums ever, even better than The Very Best of David Hasselhoff. This man is to spiritual music what I am to celebrity Christian writing - he really is that good.

Right now, he's vying with Eminem for this week's number one spot. Wouldn't it be just fantastic, I mean just fantastic if he pulled it off and became the oldest male chart topper in history? Wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be fantastic? Wouldn't it be just fantastic if all the millions of people listening to me right now at 7.45 on a Saturday morning, went to their favourite online music store and ordered a copy of "Praise and Blame" right now. It really is a really, really good album, and if you can't wait for the CD, you can always get the whole album as an mp3 download. Isn't that just fantastic! As it says in the book of the Ford Fiesta Owner's manual, life doesn't get much better than this.

I'd better not go on about how fantastic his fantastic new album is, after all there's no advertising or product placement allowed on the BBC. I just want to add this though. It takes a man of Tom Jones maturity and deep, deep spirituality to come up with lyrics like this.

What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
I've got flowers
And lots of hours
To spend with you.
So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!

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