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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Boogie to Boogaloo, December 13, 1999
Checkout the latest material from any rock band that is 30 years old (if you can still find any),and the reaction is usually "a couple of good tracks" with the remainder of the album fast forgotten.With Nazareth its different! Even as a dedicated fan of over 20 years this album is everything you would expect from a debut offering,I was truly stunned,blown away!This is what hardrock is all about,yet its not any tired old offering, familiar guitar riffs dredged up from drink sodden wrinklies.The album is crammed with glorious tuneful songs, rasping vocals from one of the most underrated rock singers around and tongue in the cheeck lyrics about drinking and women. This is Nazareth at their best.After several average albums in the 1980's (when rock music lost its way),the 1990's albums No Jive and Move Me announced that the band were back rocking, yet something was still missing. Buy Boogaloo.Play Boogaloo very loud. You will then be in no doubt that Nazareth are back, playing as Loud and Proud as ever.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
FLASH - ONE OF THE BEST HARD ROCK ALBUMS EVER!!, November 10, 2000
I own all of Nazareth's albums, at least 20 or so, and I wanted to let the album age a bit before forming my opinion - but I have to say this is the best album they have ever made! Fast songs, slow songs, funky songs, boogie songs - and all are excellent. It seems to combine all the different genres of music the band has experimented with into one incredible sound. Usually a bands best effort comes early in their career, so this album is a truly amazing feat - even a triumph. Even their best albums have 1 or 2 bad songs, but I just cannot criticize any of the tracks on this album. Light Comes Down, Talk Talk, Robber and the Roadie, Loverman, Light Comes Down, and Waiting are the top tier of songs, and the rest of the songs are very respectable and clever. It is an extremely fastpaced album, and the final ballad doesn't really match their finer ones, but the Southern boogie/blues track "God Saved The South" is excellent lyrically and has a great feel, and is the the only song on the album that lets you catch your breath. Some of Nazareth's albums are all over the place, and seem to sound like 3 different albums mixed together - but on Boogaloo the variety is wonderful, yet all the songs still mesh together well. This album is wonderful, I've given it incredible replay over the past 1 to 2 years, 5 STARS with no hesitation on my part - and I'm being objective. I own almost every classic hard rock album ever made, and this one is a treasure.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Grrreat!, December 16, 1999
I liked it a lot. I was born in 67 in Moscow - Nazareth is still one of the most popular bands in Russia among my generation. This CD sounded as good as their best ballads. Go Dan!
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