Amore

The Hooters | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Label: Antenna
• ASIN: B000LWDR98
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #912,692 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

TRACKS: 1. Amore 2. Blood from a Stone 3. Hanging on a Heartbeat 4. All You Zombies 5. Birdman 6. Don't Wanna Fight 7. Fightin' on the Same Side 8. Concubine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Find it If You Can: More than Worth the Search, August 12, 2004

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G. L Raus (Charleston, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amore (Audio CD)

To Clarify...this album was first released in 1983 NOT 1993 Maybe the CD version first hit the stores in 1993, but the album is much older...and anyone living in Philadelphia that summer knows that Amore was all over the radio. MMR supported this band like no body's business...and rightfully so. Although later Hooters albums like Nervous Night (their big lable debut)and One Way Home had newer versions of many of the songs on Amore, in my opinion they pale in comparison. Amore just drips with the raw talent and energy that only a band on the "verge" can muster. Bazillian and Hyman knew they had something special going and they held nothing back in recording Amore. With John Lilly on lead guitar and Rob Miller on base, along with David U on drums, this was a great line-up. Definitely the heavy weight champ of the Philly bands around in the 80s, the Hooters, along with Robert Hazard, The A's, Beru Revue, Jelly Roll and a host of other bands made this a special time to turn on the radio. Now, if they could only release the original 45 versions of Fighting on the Same Side and All You Zombies. This pressing of Amore does contain Man in the Street...which if I am correct was the flipside to the Fightin on the Same Side 45.

Dig around, a find this CD. One of the best albums of the 80s...even if it was only released in and around Philly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, October 10, 2010

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B. Mathers "bmathers" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amore (Audio CD)

This is the original release by the Hooters before they went commercial. Much more reggae sounding, rather than heavy pop which is what they morphed into. Not nearly as good in my opinion. You can now get the cd from their web site for $12 though, so don't pay some crazy amount here or on ebay. Go to [...].

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A quaint slice of early 80s Phillycana, March 6, 2009

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Nick (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amore (Audio CD)

Philadelphia's favorite sons released this underappreciated indie album long before indie became hip. Featuring early (and oftentimes quite different) versions of some later major-label album cuts, Amore is as perfect of a snapshot of the Philly music scene in the early 80's - hard edge, high energy, imaginative and rhythmic. It's not perfect by any means - the mix gets a little sloppy in parts, a couple of the songs work far better live than in the studio, and while Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman are outstanding songwriters, they'll never make a Rock Vocalists Hall Of Fame. But those imperfections were, in some strange way, part of the Hooters' massive and well-deserved appeal back in the day, in and around the bars and clubs of Philadelphia.

Highlights include a stripped-down All You Zombies, Blood From A Stone (later a minor hit for the Red Rockers), Birdman, the sublime Fightin' On The Same Side, and the definitive version of Hanging On A Heartbeat. The latter two blow out of the water the unfortunate recasted versions that appear on Nervous Night. If you're a Hooters fan from more recent days or from outside the Delaware Valley, and you've never heard how those two fabulous songs were meant to sound, here's your chance.