Flamingo [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Flamin' Groovies | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Buddha
• ASIN: B00000JJIT
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,259 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Groovies' Groovy "Flamingo", January 3, 2000

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This review is from: Flamingo (Audio CD)

"Flamingo," the second album from the Flamin' Groovies, was recorded in 1970 and released that same year, to nearly universal uninterest. Today the Flamin (or Flamin') Groovies command a certain following, not unlike that enjoyed by another revisionist rock band of the early '70s, Big Star. Yet the Groovies never quite settled on a style; their first album, which I think is their best, was rock and roll revivalism with a quick nod goodbye to the '60s. "Teenage Head" saw the band becoming a more or less standard rock group, although the title track is a classic. "Flamingo," which has been remastered and festooned with extra tracks (none essential, unless you're the kind of person who gets excited about mediocre covers of Rufus Thomas songs), contains some real classics: "Comin' After You" and "Second Cousin" among them. Yet there is something second-hand and stillborn about the Flamin' Groovies even at their best. In the context of the godawful early '70s they seem pretty good, but they are the prototype for every critic's band that would follow. Just because a group hews to the rock and roll guidelines and remains unpretentious does not mean they should be canonized. Nonetheless I listen to "Flamingo" a good bit, and the Flamin' Groovies were certainly a skillful band. Now if some label would just do consumers a favor and release "Supersnazz" and "Flamingo" on one CD, and then do the same with "Teenage Head" and "Shake Some Action," all of which could be complemented with the best from other albums like "Now." That way we could get the whole picture and save some money to boot.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Desert Island Disc!!!, April 1, 2006

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R. Isherwood (Fort Collins, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flamingo (Audio CD)

Flamingo is one of the greatest rock n roll records released ever! No question about it. Ranks at the top with Pet Sounds, Super Session (look it up, yuppie morons), Who's Next, Kind of Blue and Love it to Death as some of the best music released ever. The Flamin' Groovies are truly, along with The Dictators, unsung heroes of Rock and Roll. If you can appreciate great music, buy it!

4.0 out of 5 stars Headin' for the City of Greater Geelong border..., October 9, 2007

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Phillip D. Turnour "fillfillfill" (Ocean Grove, Vic Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flamingo (Audio CD)

I got a 2nd hand copy of this on vinyl in the early 80s. It kept me sane, along with the Replacements and REM (before they went all Glen Campbell) in the midst of bad poodle-metal and synth-pop. Headin' For the Texas Border is phenomenal - powerhouse rock with a blues sensibility and more intensity than you can sleep with and, speaking of which, Second Cousin is mad, bad and kick-arse to know. Roadhouse fulfils its rock'n'roll mission. The sample of their version of something Else leaves Sid Vicious for dead (funny that) and is possibly better than Eddie's original. The version of Rumble sounds like it suffers from a few too many bourbons but hat's life when your this good. I saw them in the mid 80s with the Hoodoo Gurus at the Club in Collingwood (Melbourne/Australia) and had a magnificent time.