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The Reducers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 1991)
• Original Release Date: December 12, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rave On
• ASIN: B00000G2GA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,933 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pssssttt! Wanna Hear A Secret? Promise Not To Tell Anyone?, September 5, 2001

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Clark Paull "(Sleepin' with the TV on)" (Murder City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: REDUX (Audio CD)

Imagine yourself standing in a small, crowded neighborhood bar (sort of like the one that Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett played in in the movie "Light Of Day") on a Friday night. You just got paid, the beer is flowing, and the planets have all aligned. The only thing left to happen to complete this perfect evening is for The Reducers to walk on stage, plug into their amps, and crank out their timeless songs of love, lust, lunacy, and LIFE. And that's just what's at the heart of this joyous, life affirming compilation drawn from this garage band extraordinaire's first three independently released LP's. Listen to "Company Man," "Fistfight At The Beach," "Little Punky Hood," or any of the 26 other songs on this album and The Reducers will leave you believing that on any given night, they just might be the best damn band in the world. Exhilarating, essential, and downright exciting.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why don't you ALREADY have this record?, June 11, 2000

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Stopheles (Ridgewood, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: REDUX (Audio CD)

There just aren't enough bands as good as the Reducers. I've seen them, oh, probably about 80 times over the past way-too-many-to-admit years, and have turned many people on by playing them REDUX.

It's not exactly the hardest thing in the world to do: About ten seconds into the first cut, heads swerve to the stereo, and by the third or fourth cut, amidst comparison points (Flamin Groovies, Dr Feelgood, the Clash, Nick Lowe, the Undertones, any and all pub-and-early-punk-rock), I'm promising to lend the CD out as long as they PROMISE to treat it like a lady. By the middle of the CD (when "Let's Go" and "Fistfight" show up) one more soul swears by a fact that I've sworn by for a few decades...

The Reducers are as good as rock and roll gets.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ESSENTIAL!, May 5, 2000

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Rick Wrigley (Norwich, Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: REDUX (Audio CD)

That's all there is to say about this CD if you love rock and roll at all. There have been many times I have stood, shaking to the sound of this band, and thought that the Reducers were the best band I've ever seen. Other times, I BELIEVE it.

As Lou Reed put it, "You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drum," and what drumming, what bass playing, and what guitars! You'll never hear better rock and roll, and you'll seldom hear as good. BUY THIS RECORD!