Name: Don't Point Your Finger par Nine Below Zero
Brand: Nine Below Zero
SKU: 602537722198
Price: 9.9 USD
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Rating: 4 (196 reviews)

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For many discerning fans, Nine Below Zero far outpaced the Jam wannabes that doomed Britain's so-called mod revival era. They even opened for the Who, whose favorite producer, Glyn Johns, oversaw this second A&M album. (Like other 1979-era revivalist bands, the group has re-formed on an intermittent basis.) Nine Below Zero show themselves as sharp players with plenty of hooks up their sleeves. Stix Burkey and Peter Clark whack out a disciplined rhythm attack without fussiness or flourishes, leaving the interplay to singer/harpist Mark Feltham and the main songwriter, lead guitarist Dennis "The Menace" Greaves. Greaves' tunes successfully execute '60s R&B toughness, yet are updated enough to grace a teen scooter fanatic's good books. "One Way Street" is a punchy, doing-it-my-way anthem ("They told me to go by the book/But look at the time that it took"), while the roughhouse R&B of the title track and "Treat Her Right" come across like a speedier Yardbirds. The feel's that close, but Greaves and cohorts have the skill to pull it off. The group expresses their bluesier side on "Ain't Comin' Back" and the slow-burning "Sugar Mama," and also dips back into '50s-style roots rave-ups with a credible cover of "Rockin' Robin." "Helen"'s trebly poppiness offers another nice diversion, being a working stiff's plea to his anxious wife ("You're the one I'm thinking of/When I come home late from my job"). An unpretentious sense of humor also makes itself heard on the title track and "Liquor Lover," which chides a girlfriend who's too fond of the fizzy stuff (which is reminiscent of how Rockpile sent up overeating on their own "Knife and Fork"). Greaves' quest for authenticity occasionally falls flat; "Three Times Enough" is as barely disguised a rewrite of "The Train Kept a-Rollin'" as you'll ever hear. However, the group's enthusiasm is contagious in all the right places, as typified by its anthemic closer, "You Can't Please All the People All the Time." Don't let the revivalist tag stop you from putting this album in your collection.
© Ralph Heibutzki /TiVo

Don't Point Your Finger

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1. One Way Street

2. Doghouse

3. Liquor Lover

4. Helen

5. Ain't Comin' Back

6. I Won't Lie

7. Treat Her Right

8. Three Times Enough

9. Sugar Mama

10. Don't Point Your Finger At The Guitar Man

11. Rockin' Robin

12. You Can't Please All The People All The Time

13. Don't Point Your Finger At The Guitar Man

14. True Love Is A Crime

15. Three Times Enough

16. Ridin On The L & N

17. Treat Her Right

18. Helen

19. 11 + 11

20. I Can't Quit You Baby

21. Rockin' Robin

22. Sugarbeat (And Rhythm Sweet)

23. Homework

24. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

25. Why Don't You Try Me Tonight

26. You Can't Please All The People All The Time

27. Pack Fair & Square

28. One Way Street

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