Prince Charming is a mostly enjoyable new wave pop album, especially the hits (though “Ant Rap” is beyond silly). However there are a couple of real stinkers, including “Five Guns West” which is simply ridiculous, sounding like it belongs on the soundtrack to a spoof spaghetti-western soundtrack. “Mile High Club” is tiresome – its introductory chords sound promising, like a new wave version of “8 Miles High,” but then goes on for another 2:40 of monotony. “Mowhok” similarly drags, with the added, and somewhat offensively, inclusion of Native Americanish traditional beats and chants. The album concludes with a hidden track, “The Lost Hawaiians,” a very brief instrumental that is a remake of “Los Rancheros” from Kings of the Wild Frontier, the Ants’ second album, though to my ears it sounds a lot more like “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” on ukulele (that song originally recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda, a South African Zulu musician, and it was made popular by the Tokens in 1961 when it became a #1 hit in the US).

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