NRBQ

Remember those old movie clips of early attempts to build a "flying machine"? A man stands
atop a high cliff waving large artificial bat wings attached to his arms -- black oil cloth held
together by wooden frames. After a dramatic gesture to the crowd he leaps into the air,
flaps his wings madly, and falls two hundred feet to the bottom of the cliff. Splat! Thus it is
with the NRBQ album. In this case the take-off point was the most unbelievably e... More >

Ever since Mike Jahn called this group the best since the Beatles (something like that) it has been the victim of terrible anti-hype. Four or five of the cuts on this album are really compelling, and while the rest is marred by a kind of cute funkiness, it is original and grows on you. Dig their version of Sun Ra's "Rocket Number 9." (Grade: A-)