This Ain't Rockabilly, This Is...
(Western Star Recording Company)
It's a valid concept, one attributed to several icons: There are only two kinds of songs-- good ones and bad ones.
Undertaken in these grooves is reinterpretation of others' hits in peculiar styles. (One recalls Big Daddy essayed a similar feat in the 1980s.)
The results are engaging. In the main, the material was top-drawer to begin with. The quality of recreations, then, hinges on new approaches put upon the table. And these evince strategic planning and enthusiastic realization.
Ska and turbulent rock influences inform the fresh versions. Punkish spew has its way, as well. (And the Addams Family-theme breakdown in "Hungry Like the Wolf?" That bespeaks creditable lightness of intent.)
The present writer took up the reviewing task with trepidation, but concluded it as a convert. A suitably flagellated one.
Recommended: "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Creep," "Don't You Want Me Baby," "Word Up," "Material Group," "Ace of Spades," "Karma Chameleon"
Video: "Hungry Like the Wolf"
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