Funk-O-Metal Carpet

Electric Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atco/ Atlantic
• ASIN: B000008FCM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,576 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

European reissue of the 1990 album. Sweden. 2005. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, August 30, 2005

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Steven Swan (Illinois) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Funk O Metal Carpet Ride (Audio CD)

This was a band that was a welcome relief from the over abundance of the hair bands of hard rock that had made the scene a bit stale. Guns N'Roses had taken over and had begun to stir it up a bit, but were bent on self destruction and all those other bands were clamering to change their sound to make it sound "modern"; a band like Electric Boys comes out and makes a funky, mellow, and even heavy album that just fills in a gap. It's sorta a mix of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and some other bands like Kings X, Saigon Kick, and even maybe Extreme to name a few that kinda snuck in to fill in time before the Grunge movement took over. Sadly this sound faded all too quickly. This fits more into an alternative rock format that maybe a band like Jane's Addiction might have been kings of.
From the opening of "Psychedelic Eyes", and the anthemic stripper theme "Lips 'N Hips" which sounds kinda cheesy by todays standards I admit. But later on it get's funky, and it get's so heavy and melodic you can't resist. It just sounds like they are having a good time making the record. "The Change" just lifts you up, a great song if you are indeed heading for a change in your life perhaps. So many great rock songs on here. Groovus Maximus is a pretty good CD also, and I'm curious to hear the newest "Freewheelin'" , but for now this will do for me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy metal funk, May 14, 2007

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mark twain "gamedevil" (Alberta) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Funk O Metal Carpet Ride (Audio CD)

Great vocals,great music,songs all different,if you like Glenn Hughes you will like this band!.I would not class this as a hair band thier music is more talented than that.I never heard of them before and took a chance and I was really pleased; that I ordered the other 2 cd's of thiers.They play heavy metal,melodies,foot stompen,funk metal, that you will play the cd over and over again!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost Aerosmith, May 3, 2006

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Henrik "da laffin tlhIngan" (in the Anime aisle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Funk-O-Metal Carpet (Audio CD)

This album sounds like what Aerosmith might have become if they'd moved to Scandinavia instead of doing Permanent Vacation and Pump.

Conny Bloom isn't quite the wild and crazy guy that Steve Tyler was and is, but this was a promising start. One more album (Groovus Maximus) came out in the states, but Nirvana sabotaged anything that might have come forward from here.

Too bad-- this band was COOL.