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NRBQ

语种

英语

厂牌

Sundazed

发行时间

2002年08月06日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by David Dupont

NRBQ makes its studio debut on its own record label with a set of infectious, at times giddy, originals and covers. Sue Thompson's &Norman& gets transgendered treatment as &Norma& with a raved-up Dixieland polka feel. &Kingston Town& retains its commercial calypso groove, but drummer Tom Ardolino overlays some square dancing calls for the lyrics. And the bubblegum trifle &Beautiful Sunday& (originally by Daniel Boone) is treated lovingly without being either overblown or pricked by satire. &Wand'rin Star,& by those riders from the Upper West Side, Lerner and Loewe, gets a clip-clop cowboy ballad setting. Keyboardist and musical wit Terry Adams contributes some off-beat drollery -- the faux cop-show theme &21-50 to Headquarters& and &Terry Got a Muffin,& which sounds like it would fit on NRBQ's album for kids. Still, this track -- as well as the cover of &Rip It Up& and Joey Spampinato's &You Are the One& -- rocks, thanks, in large part, to Ardolino's relentless beat. Spampinato also provides a couple first class rock ballads: &Come Softly to Me,& with jangling Beatlesque overtones, and &Goodbye.& On these and the closer &See You Soon,& the band really wears its collective heart on its sleeve, fitting for a musical Valentine to tuneful and loopy pop.