Hope You Like It [Import]

Geordie, Geordie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B000006YYQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #707,642 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

1990 reissue on Repertoire of the 1973 debut album by Brian Johnson's pre-AC/DC group with four bonus tracks: 'Can You Do It', 'Electric Lady', 'Geordie Stomp' and 'Black Cat Woman'. 15 tracks total.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars pure class, February 6, 2005

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HIPPIE DAVE (Shelf, w.yorks United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hope You Like It (Audio CD)

As a big fan of Geordie in the 70s,I still like their albums,which have a varied style. As to the previous comment that Brian Johnson went onto bigger and better things with AC/DC well maybe bigger, but I would rather listen to Geordie anytime to be honest, as others have said Johnson's vocals are better on those songs

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Why Is Everyone So Down On This Album?, October 21, 2004

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Chuck Potocki (Crown Point, Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hope You Like It (Audio CD)

I can't understand why everyone is so down on this album as well as the band? Every major rock star had to start their career somewhere, and this is where Brian Johnson started his before he went on to bigger and better things with AC/DC.

Granted, Geordie didn't break any real ground musically, but that's not the point...they weren't trying to. Like their UK counterparts The Move and Slade, Geordie were simply a loud, good-time pub band who wrote catchy and fun songs with a punchy, hard rock edge.

I seriously beg to differ with anyone who thinks that Brian Johnson doesn't have one of the most powerful and distinctive rock & roll voices; that may not be the case now since he's been screaming for 24 years with AC/DC, but at the time that Geordie were at their peak, Johnson's voice had the ability to splinter concrete! The only equal to Johnson would be Noddy Holder of Slade; that guy had tonsils made out of iron!

On "Hope You Like It", Geordie's infectious, catchy songs are pretty much all over the map; my personal favorites are the crunchy "Give You 'Til Monday" and "Natural Born Loser" as well as their UK hit singles "Can You Do It?", "Geordie Stomp", "Black Cat Woman", "All Because Of You", and the great "Don't Do That".

Perhaps the oddest song of the lot is the goofy "Geordie's Lost His Liggie", where Johnson sounds as if he'd put away one pint too many and goes into a mock-Cockney/Scottish accent on the vocals. I get a kick out of him breaking up laughing at the end of the song, and then you hear the sound of him lighting up a cigar and blowing out the match; he obviously had a great time with that one!

All in all, this is a good, fun rock album; there are certainly worse ways for one to start their career, but this is no embarassing "skeleton in the closet" for Brian Johnson. I recommend this CD!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dull and insipid..., July 6, 2004

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M. Fonseca "carmarthen" (Thunder) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hope You Like It (Audio CD)

This is one of those cases when a miracle appears to occur in a person's life. The person in point is singer Brian Johnson. It's a miracle that AC/DC picked him up to replace the late Bon Scott. Why? Because there is nothing in Geordie to put this band above some of the most dull, insipid and common rock bands from the 70's. Ok, Brian's voice at that time was really powerful and with personality, but the songs and the musicians.. ugh! absolutely nithing to remember, I assure you. Just generic rock and roll.