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Toploader - Only For A While
5 April 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Only For A While is the new single from Toploader, from the album Onka's Big Moka. It's a bit slower than the bands' last single Dancing In The Moonlight.

The ballad is backed by a cover of The Supremes' 1966 hit You Keep Me Hanging On, the band decided to include the track after playing it at the TFI christmas show and getting a great response. Also on the CD version are the names of 10,000 of the bands' fans, the names can be read by putting the CD in your CD-ROM drive. I can't see any good reason for this.

Not a bad track though, better than the last single.


3/5

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