Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Album of the week- Niagara & the Hitmen: "St. Valentine's Day Massacre"
This took a while to come out, and then a leetle while longer for my copy to filter through. But it's here now, and it's all good.
Long story short- what you get here is Sydney's Hitmen backing gen-u-ine legend Niagara on an eight song live set that's all killer, no filler. Then the Hitmen chuck in a couple more live numbers, just because they can. Everyone sounds hot, everyone sounds like they are having a ball. It is, as the liner notes say, the closing of a circle and a fine reminder of the influence of Ron Asheton.
They don't make too many of 'em like this anymore, sadly.
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Ha, how come you only just got this, TJ?
ReplyDeleteWorth it for the live Hitmen tracks alone. But Niagara is astonishing. Go girl!