Basically, John comes off a clueless loser. But still you can't help but root for the poor guy. Looking for love at "Baz's Party," John goes off with "a girl named Belinda Clough" who warns him "Listen, you better not go too far/ and stop trying to undo my bra/ keep your hands off you Romeo/ Maria...it's time to go." Meanwhile the host of the party is "puking up in the lavatory/ his name's Baz, it's his party." Priceless.

Later, on his job in the "Paperboy Song," John meets a girl named Wendy Moore who he watches "get undressed in her window on the 2nd floor." John then makes his move by putting "a letter in her Jacky," which prompts Wendy to "tell her brother to attack me." Seems our Jilted hero just can't catch a break.

When Jilted John meets his "True Love" in the song of the same name, he decides to "ask her what she's doing tonight/ she said that depends on what you have in mind/ I thought I might down to the local disco/ do you wanna' go?/ and she said alright...ahhh!...and I was in heaven." The sadness on this record comes later when Karen dumps him using — what else? — a Dear John letter.

Corny as it sounds, you can't help but feel a little sadness for this poor sap.

Jilted John never achieved the same success here in America as in his native England. We yanks tend to take our rock and roll far too seriously for this sort of nonsense. I'm not even sure he even made another record after this one.

But as novelty records go, True Love Stories has a great little punk rock kick to it. The lyrics, though often hilarious, actually tug at your heart strings a bit too.
Best of all, the pop hooks are the sort that you can't get out of your head once you hear them. This is great stuff.

2-3-4, 'Ere We Go!