Plastic Silver 9 Volt Heart

The Iguanas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yep Roc Records
• ASIN: B00008CMT6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,532 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Summer time party fun, July 5, 2003

By 

Music fan (Norfolk, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plastic Silver 9 Volt Heart (Audio CD)

The Iguanas' "Plastic Silver and 9 Volt Heart" (Yep Roc) is one groove-y record, laidback, loping and made for a margarita in the summer shade or a cruise with the top down. There's nothing showy to the 13 cuts here, just a remarkably varied collection of easygoing music with healthy helping of Tex Mex stew. If you only own their debut album with the rollicking "Night of Sin," this is a time to take another listen to the boys from New Orleans.

The band recorded the disc live in the studio over eight days and it shows how they've progressed over the past decade. They take the timeworn basics of down home R&B, swamp rock and Tex Mex and mix and match, creating something new that fits as comfortably as a well-worn pair of jeans. This is confidently cool music, from the first blast of "Yesterday," a pop tune born of the marriage of Morphine and The Lovin' Spoonful, through the snaking twin sax blasts of "Zacatecas" on to the shuffling ballad that is "The First Kiss Is Free" and into the guitar rock of "I Dig You."

Of course, these guys know how to play party tunes. That's why Jimmy Buffett originally signed them to his label. Just listen to the dance-along cuts, "Flame On," which recalls Los Lobos, and "The Liquor Dance," sure to become a David Lindley favorite. With their electronically altered-vocals, they sound like remnants of an old mono rave-up.

Songwriter and vocalist Rod Hodges, with help from Dave Alvin on the title cut, has tendered his best set of tunes. And the boys in the band, multi-instrumentalist Rene Coman and Joe Cabral, tenor saxman Derek Huston and drummer Doug Garrison have conjured up a soundtrack for the summer.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Low Voltage High Wattage, July 21, 2003

By 

Expedient Note (Delaware, USA) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Plastic Silver 9 Volt Heart (Audio CD)

Buy this album. NOW! ??? Because, if you don't but it now, you will be kicking yourself later because it went of print so quickly or became instantly unavailable, unless nefarious means of obtention are your specialty. Try getting their album "Superball" now....There are 3 great kick start songs offering immediate listening pleasure. The balance all slip-slide into your daily routine ("...just like "Mexican Candy"..)through the bottom heavy groove that weaves its way thoughtout a finely produced album. No tinkley sounds here; these guys brood with the best of them.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bueno,Bueno!!, March 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Plastic Silver 9 Volt Heart (Audio CD)

I have been an iguanas fan since 1993. I have all of their albums,and I believe this might be their best album yet!I was very excited see that the new record was coming out. Although,as said in the reviews, this is a departure from previous albums, but certainly not a radical departure.It still has that signiture tex-mex sound. This is an absolutly delightful listen from start to finish.I highly reccomend this album.