1997 Gary Barlow: Love Won't Wait

Not a Barlow original this time but a cover of an unused offcut from Madonna's 'Erotica' album which he tailored after his own fashion. I might be doing Mr Barlow a great disservice here, but 'Love Won't Wait' is not the sound of a man trying his best. I'm not sufficiently au fait with Take That to be able to comment on their B sides, but I'd like to think that this is what a Take Than B side would sound like had they recorded any; vaguely upbeat with a dancey rhythm that wants to get on with things but is hampered by a straitjacket of a song that that sounds like anaemic Take That bleached clean of any joy or substance and with a damp squib of a chorus that arrives and sputters out with all the force of a drunken orgasm. Then again, I've always thought Madonna's 'Erotica' album was pretty wretched too so the odds were never stacked in his favour here.