THE GODFATHERS “More Songs About Love and Hate.” Epic **: <i> Albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor) to five stars (a classic).</i>

This second effort from the besuited British quintet best-known for the roiling, boiling single “Birth, School, Work, Death” (1988) is as bedrock-solid as it is ultimately unspectacular. Not a bum track in the bunch, but aside from “Walking, Talking Johnny Cash Blues”--a definite cult clas sick --and the current single “She Gives Me Love”--which pretty much packs everything these wise guys know into one lashing, slashing hunk of pop aggression--there’s naught that memorable either. Still, fans of dour vocals, sour romance, kinda Kinks-y, semi-Stonesy, sixtieszoid riffslinging--(some HAIR - raising guitar outros here) can lay their ample heads on this weary bosom and find that the heart of rock ‘n’ roll is still making an offer you can’t refuse.