Get Around - Guana Batz (The)

Advantages: This best of comes with two cd's! One disc is live. You get more for your money.
Disadvantages: There arent any!

...This album is a must for anyone diving into the big bad world of psychobilly; this album includes an excellent choice of songs by the Guana Batz and includes a live disc which has a few covers by the Stray Cats and Cliff Richard! I urge you to buy this album, as all the songs are solid; this is a real psycho band to get yer teeth into! You get your fast, raging songs with (excellent double bass playing may I add) to your slower, more acoustic rock and roll songs, either way you can't lose, this album hasn't got a bad track and becomes increasingly enjoyable the more you listen. This album cannot fail you, whether you're listening to the live or studio tracks! The live tracks are excellent, fabulous recording, almost better than the studio tracks. There isn't a bad word to say about this album.... Read review

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Advantages: Classic early rockin' album... the roots of Psychobilly!
Disadvantages: Too rockabilly for hard-core Psychobilly fans.

...Though clearly a Rockabilly outfit, The Ricochets had a harder-edge and lyrically their sound was a lot tougher than many of their peers at the time. They brought the excitement and energy of Punk to this album while still maintaining their rockin' roots. The Ricochets roughhouse style shakes this album and the darker lyrical style, which would become a Psychobilly standard, is particularly noticeable in tracks such as 'Witchcraft', Migraine', 'Runnin Wild' and 'Hitman'. Openly baring their influences, the cover versions include 'Brand New Cadillac' and the Generation X Punk anthem 'King Rocker'. Despite the quality on offer on this debut, the band never released another album until reforming and recording 'On Target' over two decades later. Although members of the band continued into the UK Psychobilly scene (with Guana Batz... Read review

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Advantages: better than the 2nd album
Disadvantages: none

...A truly amazing debut album from the Phonics! Although this first album has only twelve tracks they are all very different and include, More Life in a Tramps Vest, A Thousand Trees and Local Boy In The Photograph, they are just a few of the great songs on Word Gets Around. Kelly Jones' has such a brilliant voice and if you've not seen Stereophonics live, you've gotta go and see them, they are class! Word Gets Around is the Phonics first album and is by far better than Performance and Coctails although it too is a great album. Compared to some bands Stereophonics songs don't all sound the same as Word Gets Around proves. If you are going to buy a Stereophonics album go for Word Gets Around rather than Perfromance and Cocktails as it is much better. Also the lyrics for all the songs are in the front cover, which is quite helpful if you... Read review

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