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Law of the Fish

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The Rads major label debut is still one of their high water marks. Some of their best songs and best grooves, with no duds or slow patches. If you like greasy, feel-good roots rock with a New Orleans twist, this here's your meat. Especially recommended for Little Feat fans, and although Lowell George still gets the nod over anyone in similar mercenary territory, the Rads are far, far better and more exciting than the post-Lowell feat. If you like this album (I'm a bit partial because this is the one that turned me on to the Rads long time ago) I recommend moving on to Total Evaporation, Live at the Great American, New Dark Ages, and Bucket of Fish, in approximately that order. If you're still jonesing, the other stuff available ain't too shabby either, and of course they've always been very generous with the live tapes so you can always cast out your line and do some live fishin'... But the point is this is the album to start with... Doctor, Doctor, Like Dreamers Do, and Suck the Head all got a good bit of radio play and certainly deserved it, and Holiday is a classic feel-good tune.

This album flows like Sgt. Peppers .. Every Song is great, I just wish they performed these songs live a lot more these days

Since they were a bar band for many years, these songs were the ones they had been honing and playing. This is a great album, and in my opinion all other efforts have fallen way short. Almost every song is great.

These Fish have no little feat. They will school you with their bogie rockin sounds and righteous lyrics. Feed your head, feed the Fish!

This album is great...lots of great guitar and excellent rythmns. Very upbeat and easy to listen to....makes you wanna dance.

LAW OF THE FISH, the Radiators' major-label debut album, is also their best. Sounding like a cross between the Band, Little Feat, the Grateful Dead, and the Allman Brothers Band, the Radiators play some of the best rock to come out of the 80s. They were a breath of fresh air in an era of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, and still sound fresh today. Many of the songs are about lost or uncertain love, proving that real romance is seldom perfect, and that even good love affairs rarely survive. This band had been playing for ten years when they recorded this CD/cassette, so their chops were honed to a dagger-sharp edge. This album is a must-own for any fan of New Orleans music and/or Southern rock.

This studio album came out in my college years, and it was frequently played at frat parties. 20 years later, it still stands up. The band is in tight form; every song is performed with gusto.

Like a previous reviewer I wish they'd played these songs more live because it's the best of their repertoire. IMO, this was their peak.

Chock full of down home Nawlins gumbo and soul, this CD is far and away the best of the Rads' studio albums. "Like Dreamers Do" is a personal fave. See 'em live!

Lost this in a move a long time ago. Finally decided to reorder. Can't wiat for the mail. Fist Radiators I heard.