Hooterization is a single-disc collection featuring all seven of
the Hooters' charting singles, plus neglected album tracks and other obscurities. Since the bulk of
the Hooters' best material -- "And We Danced," "Day by Day," "All You Zombies," and "Where Do the Children Go" -- is on their
Nervous Night debut album,
Hooterization is useful only for those collectors and listeners who want a compilation for the sake of having a compilation.
Hooterization is too long and filled with too many bland tracks to make a consistently entertaining listen, which is not the case of
Nervous Night, since it is shorter and contains all the hits. Certainly,
Hooterization does a fine job of selecting the highlights from
One Way Home and
Zig Zag, but most casual fans will be satisfied with
Nervous Night. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine