Unkle - War Stories

I made a point a few years back of getting rid of all my 1 song CD's. that is all the cd's i had purely because of 1 good song surrounded by loads of offal. I burnt all these "good" songs onto mix cd's so that i could at least listen to 10 or 12 good songs in a row without having to skip through the rubbish. Now the question i pose to you is this.. are the rest of the songs on these '1 song albums' so un-listenable because a) the good song is just so so good everything else pales in comparison or b) the band just got lucky with one good song and wrote 10 complete pieces of tripe to fill out the album. the reason i ask this is because i cant decide whether the songs of war stories are just filler around the standout track 'burn my shadow' or just that that song is so good everything else sounds lame. OK maybe i'm being a bit harsh, there are a few decent tracks, opener 'Chemistry' sets the scene for a dark moody thrashy album but it's not until track 5 that we get that feeling back. in fact the sequencing of the whole album is strange with the more upbeat songs annoyingly dispersed evenly through the album destroying any theme that was trying to break through. And it is a theme of desolation and desperation that is captured by these stronger tracks, 'keys to the kingdom', 'price you pay' and 'burn my shadow'. Anyway, if burn my shadow is the only track that comes out of the album it was well worth the listen.