{"id":12084,"date":"2020-05-27T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2020-05-23T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:40:50","slug":"flamin-groovies-now-jumpin-in-the-night-mvd-entertainments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12084","title":{"rendered":"Flamin\u2019 Groovies\u00a0– \u00b4Now\u2019\/\u2018Jumpin\u2019 In The Night\u2019 (MVD Entertainments)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reissued on CD by MVD on 10th July and 7th August respectively<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Finally, I can get my mitts on a decent quality cd of The Flamin\u2019 Groovies\u2019 \u2018Now\u2019 album. While they never recaptured the heights of \u2018Shake Some Action\u2019 (though 2017\u2019s \u2018Fantastic Plastic\u2019 is a fine attempt), \u2018Now\u2019 is still worthy of a place in your collection. In common with Dr Feelgood, they clearly had problems in writing enough songs, so both albums are half-filled with cover versions. Some work better than the originals, some not so much.<\/p>\n

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Starting with their major influence, The Byrds, \u2018Feel A Whole Lot Better\u2019 is the sound of a band playing a song they love. It doesn\u2019t need changing, so they didn\u2019t. \u2018Between The Lines\u2019 showed that they could still find their chops. It has that undefinable something. \u2018Ups And Downs\u2019 is a cheesy, upbeat tune, but they make it sound fun. Cliff\u2019s \u2018Move It\u2019 was always going to be a great choice, and I still love it.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Take Me Back\u2019 is one of two classic Groovies songs on here. Wistful and beautiful, with that perfect jangle of guitars. Dave Edmunds\u2019 production got the best out of the songs. \u2018Don\u2019t Put Me On\u2019 is the second; almost on a par with \u2018Shake..\u2019, it could only be the Groovies. It\u2019s hard to explain to anyone who is unfamiliar with them just why their best songs are so great, iconic even. If you\u2019ve tried writing songs, you\u2019ll know that there is magic here.<\/p>\n

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\u2018All I Wanted\u2019 is another good, original song, very Beatley, unsurprisingly. \u2018Good Laugh Mun\u2019 and \u2018Yeah, My Baby\u2019 were co-written with Edmunds, who understood their sound perfectly. Two Stones songs in a row is a tad ambitious; \u2018Blue Turns To Grey\u2019 suits them better than ‘paint It Black\u2019, and the album ends on a perfunctory \u2018There\u2019s A Place\u2019.<\/p>\n

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A year later, and \u2018Jumpin\u2019 In The Night\u2019 starts well with the title track. It drives along nicely, and reflects their live sound. \u2018Next One Crying\u2019 is a Stones-style original, while \u2018First Plane Home\u2019 is back in Byrds territory. \u2018In The USA\u2019 is a straight ahead Chuck Berry fest, while James Burton\u2019s \u2018Down, Down, Down\u2019 is not the strongest choice of song. \u2018Yes I Am\u2019 is a better original, as is \u2018Tell Me Again\u2019. \u2018Please, Please Me\u2019 is the obligatory Beatles cover, though \u2018Werewolves Of London\u2019 is weirdly very good, better than the original. McGuinn\u2019s \u2018It Won\u2019t Be Wrong\u2019 and \u20185D\u2019 work well, but I could do without \u2018Absolutely Sweet Marie\u2019 and David Crosby\u2019s \u2018Lady Friend\u2019. The overall sound is too light, and it runs out of gas halfway through.<\/p>\n

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The best of each would make a good album, but for me, \u2018Now\u2019 has the sound and personality of the Groovies.<\/p>\n

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Author: Martin Chamarette<\/p>\n

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Reissued on CD by MVD on 10th July and 7th August respectively \u00a0 \u00a0 Finally, I can get my mitts on a decent quality cd of The Flamin\u2019 Groovies\u2019 \u2018Now\u2019 album. While they never recaptured the heights of \u2018Shake Some Action\u2019 (though 2017\u2019s \u2018Fantastic Plastic\u2019 is a fine attempt), \u2018Now\u2019 is still worthy of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4992,2040,383,4991,4942,4993,4990],"class_list":["post-12084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-jumpin-in-the-night","tag-dave-edmunds","tag-flamin-groovies","tag-mdv-group","tag-now","tag-shake-some-action","tag-sire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12086,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions\/12086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}