GOONS!

Never Go Back

(Hi-Tide Recordings)

A cliche in crime entertainment is the "perp always returns to the scene of the crime" axiom; perhaps that prompted title Never Go Back. New York's rave-up Goons scheme in the same comic-book crook guises as do the Madrid-based Bank Robbers. Too, each cases seriously unserious Garage/Rockabilly joints, with Hullabaloo dance-off fun being the black-market haul - in bulging white bag with oversized dollar-sign emblem. 

Here, Farfisa abets Graham Tichy's treble-string-stinging, '60s partytime arousal. Hooks can be tracked to transister radios glued to the shaggy noggins of fastback-years teens taking sidewalk skateboards over home-built ramps. "Land of a Thousand Crimes" bespeaks Wicked Pickett emulation. 

"Crime just can't be beat!" crow the Goons. (Don't let Officer Dibble hear you say that.)

Recommended: "Never Go Back" "Parchman Farm," "Jailbird," "I've Waited So Long," "Driving Wheel," "Lockdown," "Roll Call," "Stick 'em Up," "Land of a Thousand Crimes," "Rob Cheat Steal"

Videos:   "Jailbird"   "I've Waited So Long"   "Stick 'em Up" (reel)   "Rob Cheat Steal"   

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