| How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Ordinary Boys |
| Cover: | How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps (The Ordinar Boys album - cover art).jpg |
| Released: | 23 October 2006 |
| Label: | B-Unique/Polydor |
| Producer: | Plastic Man |
| Prev Title: | Brassbound |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | The Ordinary Boys |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps is the third album by English indie band the Ordinary Boys, released following lead singer Samuel Preston's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother in January 2006. It was released on 23 October 2006 in the UK. It signified a transition in the band's sound from ska-inspired British indie to a more pop and disco one. The hit single "Boys Will Be Boys" is included as a bonus track. This song also featured on the band's second album, Brassbound, but was a success long after the release of the previous album.
The band put all of the songs from the album on their Myspace page for fans to listen to. The record has been billed by the band as their best album and the one which they are most proud of, but response from critics, fans and the general public was mixed and lukewarm. Andy Gill of The Independent rated it two stars, stating "the album's supposedly sardonic take on tabloid celebrity culture is fatally compromised by songwriter Preston's embrace of it."[1] The album charted at No. 15. The last reported sales figures claimed that the album is their least successful sales-wise.