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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"All the Smart Boy's Know Why" (Thunderstruck), 17 Aug 2007
I had already heard LAMF by the Heartbreakers, but chanced on this album after one of the tracks (You cant put your arms around a memory) was used on the end credits of a Soprano's episode. This album is one of the loosest, coolest, sounding rock n' roll records I've ever had the sheer joy to listen to. Thunders often gets tagged with the 'Punk' tag, but his playing/singing shakes off any era or style label's, this guy was an original, and this album has everything, ballad's, rockers, blues, pop. And any album that has guest players like Phil Lynott, Steve Marriot, and Paul Cook and Steve Jones of the Pistols, is worth any card-carrying music fans hard earned cash.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incomparable . . ., 3 Aug 2007
From a performer often castigated as an underachiever, this record is a hell of an achievement! From start to finish, Thunders' superb pop sensibility and 'just right' guitar work is in evidence.
London Boys manages that rare feat: an 'answer' song beating the original (Sex Pistol's 'New York'), Subway Train is just as good to hear yet again in this version, Pipeline makes a good entry piece and just about every other piece makes a damn' solid contribution to a CD I'd not be without.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A wild one, 5 Feb 2008
The wreckage that peers out of the front cover of 'So Alone' suggests a man on the edge, both mischievous and vulnerable. The music contained therein seems to confirm it. An incendiary cover of The Chantays' instrumental, 'Pipeline,' mixes with the grind of 'Daddy Rollin' Stone,' the Pistol-punk of 'London Boys,' the nonsense of the girl-group item, 'Great Big Kiss' and the fragility of 'You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory.' Thunders wanders from one style to another, sometimes shambolic, often with a Jaggeresque vocal. By turns energetic and melodic, Thunders's music is always a little wayward but never dull. It isn't perfect; his duet with Peter Perrett, for instance, is messy. But it should appeal to anyone with a penchant for the basics of rock and roll.
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