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Groovus Maximus

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I'm not gonna bore you with everything I could think of saying about this album because if you are looking at it, you probably already know what its about!! The music on this album is funk/metal with (at times) a psychadelic edge to it. This is from the early 90's when funk metal fusion was at its very best when bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Enuff-Z-Nuff, Bang Tango, Saigon Kick, White Trash, Love/Hate and Janes Addiction were all turning out fantastic tunes - it's a shame that The Electric Boys never got the recognition they deserved!! The funk/metal fusion bands should have had a longer spell in music history as I think they would have produced some fantastic music but, like most of these bands at the time who were coming into there prime, they were killed off by the useless Grunge movement that emerged. Grunge was never really anything compared to the previous genres that had gone before it - it was a morbid style of music with bands that were highly over rated and Nirvana were the pick of the bunch for that!!

If you want to listen to hard hitting funk rock with an edge, buy this album and while your at it, get the first and third albums (Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride (fantastic) and Freewheelin') by this band, they're excellent!! Freewheelin' is more of a straight hard rock album, (probably because of the line-up change) but its still got that edge about it and its superb!!

The music on this CD is exactly what is missing from todays boring, manufactured music! Its great songs written and performed by proper musicians who can play instuments; NOT a load of songs performed by pretty boys/girls who think they can sing and who perform silly dance routines to the music written for them by other people!!!

1992's Groovus Maximus was the second album from Swedish funk metal act Electric Boys. The band had a hit with their 1990 debut album Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride, which was released just in time for mainstream radio's brief fascination with funk metal (back when you heard names like Bang Tango and Mindfunk in the same sentence as the Red Hot Chili Peppers).

Groovus Maximus picks up right where Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride left off, with a bass-heavy, funk-inspired hair metal sound with plenty of horns. Like nearly all Swedish rock albums (I think it's written in their constitution), Groovus Maximus is a very melodic album. It's also, unfortunately, an uneven album. There are some genuinely memorable songs on the album, like Bed of Roses or the Beatles-esque Mary in the Mystery World, but there is a lot of filler as well. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of music, but the band's debut album impressed me in a way that this album just fails to do.

Groovus Maximus did not prove to be anywhere near as successful as Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride, and by 1992 the grunge movement was starting to push anything even remotely tied to hair metal out of the mainstream. The band would issue one more album - 1994's Freewheelin' - before going their separate ways.

NOTE: Groovus Maximus was reissued in 2005 with digitally remastered audio and a handful of bonus demo tracks. If you're a major fan of the Electric Boys, you'll probably want to check out the pricey reissues. If you're just casually interested in the band's sound, you should be able to grab a used copy of the original release for a dollar or two.

This not your average Hair-Metal Band. I loved the first one, but this one is better. Of the 30 bands I listened to in 1992, this one still sounds awesome. The energy on this album is frickin' incredible. It has the pump-you-up energy of late 80's metal without the cheesiness, but with the 70's funk that makes you want to get up and go. Any fan of 80's-90's metal that regrets the musical malaise since Nirvana detoured the music industry should pick this up. This is some finger-lickin hardcore.