Golden Earring

Golden Earring has been one of Holland's top bands for eight years and is just now
approaching generally deserved world-wide success as a good, flashy hard-rock band.
Unfortunately, it also has some crippling pretensions. Most of Side Two's effectiveness is
diluted by long, tedious stretches of instrumental meandering. Even Side One's compelling
"Vanilla Queen" suffers from an irrelevant tailpiece of spacey noises and inferior... More >

The single off this, "Radar Love," was voted best of 1973 in England but ran out of radio detecting and ranging waves in this country, which made Grand Funk's "The Loco-Motion" number one instead. Yah, yah, our stupid-rock is better than your stupid-rock--especially when yours comes from Holland. (Grade: C+)