7 Easy Pieces [Import]

Detroit Cobras | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rough Trade
• ASIN: B00008BLFV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,559 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ya Ya Ya (Looking for My Baby)

2. My Baby Loves the Secret Agent

3. Heartbeat

4. You Don't Knock

5. Silver & Gold (When I Get Like This)

6. 99 and a Half Just Won't Do

7. Insane Asylum

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars, because 4.9 won't do, November 12, 2004

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Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seven Easy Pieces Ep (Audio CD)

The Detroit Cobras obviously love their record collection which must be very large and full of delightful obscurities from many decades. All their records are freshly recreated cover versions and here they tackle (in order) Melvin Smith (a local singer), the Olympics, Gloria Jones, the Kingston Trio, the 5 Royales, Dorothy Love Coates' Ninety-Nine And A Half Won't Do (not the Wilson Pickett song, as so many reviewers seemed to think) and Koko Taylor, all played with passion and verve. To make it harder to fathom their origins, they change or miss-spell some of the song titles or composer credits or omit them completely so some detective work went into finding the above list of names, but this is part of their charm. Great stuff

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Only 7 songs, but they're gems, November 23, 2003

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Stuart Sutton "trekman1420" (VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 7 Easy Pieces (Audio CD)

If you have their other cds and, like me, simply CANNOT get enough, well, then, YES, you DO need to get this CD. 4 terrific rockers, 1 slow soulful, 1 (maybe)gospel-rock, and 1 that defies description (Insane Asylum has a male vocal until Rachel chimes in as powerfully as usual)

I made a "Best of" cd for my car stereo and picked 5 of these 7; not a bad payoff for the purchase (and then stuck the other 2 songs on at the end, anyway!)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Let's roll!, May 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: 7 Easy Pieces (Audio CD)

Original? Maybe not very, but high-quality, rootsy rocky R&B doesn't need to be. It just has to be good and sincere. This is.
Only seven songs, but enough variation on the album. And all songs are more than 'okay'.
A short album, but fortunately there's a 'repeat-button'on my CD player.