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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice addition to the Aussie legacy!, January 25, 2008
Baby Animals nailed two great albums in the early 90's and now 15 years later they have reformed to tour Australia. After all these years they have added a very nice album consisting of reworked acoustic versions of a few of their songs. Although this album is very mellow it is a great companion piece and shows how classy the original songs were. These versions have been drastically altered so that you can really only recognise them when the lyrics kick in. Each song has a distinct vibe and Suzi De Marchi's vocals are always awesome. Now I'm really looking forward to hearing a new album from these guys ASAP!
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
WTF....Huh....uhh...BLURGHHHHHH...WHY?????????????? , August 2, 2008
The Baby Animals hit the Australian music scene in the late 80's/Very Early 90's with there self titled debut album (1990), followed by a not so successful follow up of 1993's "Shaved And Dangerous"... that would be the last we'd here of the Baby Animals again, until now.
I've never heard why the band split up, but there first album was not just any album, it was almost a debut of greatest hits. Half the songs on that album still get radio play today somewhere in Australia, and songs like, "One Word", "Rush You" & "Early Warning" being considered some of the all time best Aussie rock songs.
The Baby Animals where AC/DC with a female singer. And for years Suzi Demachi has been one of my favorite female vocalists, purely for being able to tear out great rock n roll lyrics with ballsy rock n roll riffs.
With that being said... imagine my shock to hear this album. They have gone from a pub/hard rock band that kicked butt, to a wimpy acoustic spanish/mexican/flamingo group.
What on earth would possess them to go in this direction?
Have you ever heard a weird cover of a rock song that someones has made into an acoustic number, slowed down, and reflects nothing of the original song?
Well, that is what they have done to there own songs.
What in the hell where they thinking when they decided to recycle there old songs and do them in easy listening, acoustic, flamingo music? I might have been ok with it if the songs sounded even half decent, but the honest truth is they have murdered there own classics here.
And what the heck does "il Grande Silenzio" mean? Is it Spanish for "group returns from the dead and murders own classics?"
I remember hearing months ago on the radio and a buzz going around that The Baby Animals where reforming and bringing out a new album. I was actually excited, I really wanted to hear there new material. Then you find out it's recycled material done in extremely hurriedness renditions.
I did not even know the album had been released, it was not talked about, no one else knew about it, radios where not playing it or promoting it.... and after hearing it, it doesn't surprise me. Like me, if they did hear it, they probably won't admit to it cause it's too much a sock that they have returned with such depressing garbage and murdering classic songs you've grown to love since 1990.
Try to imagine AC/DC doing "Whole Lotta Rosie" as a slow acoustic number, or Ozzy Osbourne doing "Paranoid" with maracas and experimental music that you would only ever expect to hear from street busker's who ruin songs on purpose in hopes people will give them money to shut up.
"One Word" was a great rock number, it was energetic, recognizable, and fun. Now, it is a slow, depressing sounding song that I could slap Suzi in the mouth for disrespecting her classic material in such a way.
I got about 5 tracks into this album and turned it off, if I hadn't have had it on my ipod and had have purchased the CD, I would have ejected it and thrown it hard as I could up against a brick wall then stomp on whats left and take a crap on it.
I have lost respect for the Baby Animals now, they had a chance to become big again, lot's of fans and just rock listeners in general have wanted this band to get back together for years... and they come out with this &^%
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