The Zutons Tired Of Hanging Around

• The Zutons – Tired Of Hanging Around
• The Zutons – It's The Little Things We Do
• The Zutons – Valerie
• The Zutons – Someone Watching Over Me
• The Zutons – Secrets
• The Zutons – How Does It Feel?
• The Zutons – Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?
• The Zutons – Oh Stacey (Look What You've Done!)
• The Zutons – You've Got A Friend In Me
• The Zutons – Hello Conscience
• The Zutons – I Know I'll Never Leave

• 1. Tired Of Hanging Around
• 2. It's The Little Things We Do
• 3. Valerie
• 4. Someone Watching Over Me
• 5. Secrets
• 6. How Does It Feel?
• 7. Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?
• 8. Oh Stacey (Look What You've Done!)
• 9. You've Got A Friend In Me
• 10. Hello Conscience
• 11. I Know I'll Never Leave

If Who Killed... was the intro, Tired of Hanging Around was the get-to-know: brimming with the kind of bruised-night-out confessionals the first record seemed to sketch out, but not quite deliver on. It stormed to the number two spot in 2006, pairing their native Merseyside swagger with northern soul propulsion: 'Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?' hit with onomatopeic soul thwack, while 'Valerie' - later immortalised and popularly veiled over by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse's cover version - showed both gift and grift in Dave McCabe's songwriting. There's self-reproach in the lyrics, born of touring excess and hard lessons, but the arrangements are all but dour.