Average White Band - Average White Band (The)

Advantages: Infectious songs that make you feel you can take on the world
Disadvantages: There is a feel that the songs are too similar

.... It is slower than the others but is still an uptempo song. Definately an interesting variation to finish. Cover/ Inside cover details Quite basic inside, not really giving much away, which in a strange way adds to the intrigue of this odd looking band. They all dress in black and white, and I think they could have made more of this on the front cover, which just shows them in their playing positions with only the black parts of them visible (the rest being a light and dark red pattern). To conclude, I have given this quite average ratings but give it good overall. This sounds a bit odd but I simply feel that the album is fantastic for when you have an adrenaline rush. The start of the album is better than the end but, to be honest, after jumping around for a while, you will be too tired to worry so much anyway. Definately worth a listen.... Read review

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Advantages: Superb music by the first great female.rock.band to go mainstream.
Disadvantages: No lyrics. Band members don't get a penny from this anthology.

...while denying themselves any personal lives. Alas, to their extreme disadvantage, they'd also paid little heed to the business aspect of their careers while working their behinds off. In the beginning, though, things looked pretty bright. The band finally decided to go with the name, 'Fanny', based on June's suggestion of assuming a girl's name. Richard Perry concurred, as his grandmother had the same name. [***This sets the story straight as regards the totally false, widely published rumour that Beatle George Harrison gave them their monicker (and there's a randy joke in there that has to do with British slang!)***.] When 'Fanny', their debut album, came out in 1970, the girls had an average age of twenty, but you wouldn't know it from their professional-grade playing even then. After all, the Millingtons had been on the road... Read review

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Advantages: Some good songs, lyrically sharp
Disadvantages: Inferior to Blondie throughout

...that was Chic to release 'Koo Koo', a spectacularly average album which did quite poorly in the charts. 'Koo Koo' is represented here by two singles, 'Backfired' and 'The Jam Was Moving'. Neither one is very good. Rodgers and Edwards perfected their formula working with artists as varied as David Bowie, Diana Ross and Duran Duran, but perhaps they dropped the ball on this one. The songs sound half-baked, a cheesy attempt to capitalise on Blondie's success in rap with 'Rapture' by trying too hard to be urban. The importance of 'Rapture' should never be underestimated (first female rap, first white rap, first rap US number one single) but this blatant imitation really is poor. Harry has released a number of albums since 'Koo Koo' and Blondie's subsequent dissolution in 1982 after 'The Hunter', their poorly received (and just plain poor) final album... Read review

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