{"id":17236,"date":"2021-11-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17236"},"modified":"2021-11-21T19:26:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T19:26:33","slug":"mad-rollers-get-mad-spaghetty-town-contra-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17236","title":{"rendered":"Mad Rollers- \u2018Get Mad\u2019 (Spaghetty Town\/Contra Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Just when I was thinking that Giuda ought to crack on with a new album, Mad Rollers have done it for them. Their debut album was recorded by longtime Giuda producer Danilo Silvestri at Green Mountain Audio, and, in places, you can\u2019t see\/hear the join. I\u2019m divided; it\u2019s a great set of mega-catchy songs, but it really does sound exactly like the first two Giuda albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, that is hardly a complaint. A lot of people are hoping Tenda and the boys return to their roots, after the slight experiment of \u2018E.V.A\u2019. But, it is weird hearing a fabulous Giuda album that Giuda didn\u2019t make! I\u2019d need to see Mad Rollers live to make a clearer distinction. That said, I will be buying this, postage notwithstanding because it is an absolute belter. You want 70s tinged, boot-boy-styled Glam anthems? (Glamthems?), step this way\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all here. From opener \u2018Black Days\u2019, we have the backbeat, the driving bass lines, the perfectly crunchy guitar tone and the gang-vocal choruses. \u2018Good Time\u2019 is just that, you\u2019ll be bopping along with thumbs in belt loops. \u2018Keep Me Away\u2019 has tastefully pilfered Slade. \u2018I Trust Nobody\u2019 is almost indistinguishable from Giuda. Is it the water supply in Rome? They certainly couldn\u2019t be on the same bill, but I can\u2019t fault the quality on show here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Bish, Bash, Bosh\u2019, and it\u2019s like the 70s never ended, in the best way. One listen, and you\u2019ll be convinced you\u2019ve known it all your life. Silvestri has mastered the Chinn\/Chapman hit factory sound. My heart goes out to any young bands in Rome; the benchmark , for this style, is immense. \u2018Another Night\u2019 adds some cheesy keyboards, but doesn\u2019t stray into the 80s, so if Giuda\u2019s brief flirtation with Duran Duran wasn\u2019t your thing, you\u2019ll be happy here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Red Light\u2019 and \u2018Motherkilla\u2019 have the joy of those early AC\/DC riffs before they hired Eric Cartman and got too heavy (dodges bottles), and \u2018Ukraine Girl\u2019 doesn\u2019t let up, so, no ballads here. What can I say? It\u2019s a fantastic album, regardless of similarities. I hope they play some gigs soon, so we can experience it in it\u2019s natural environment. You\u2019d be mad not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just when I was thinking that Giuda ought to crack on with a new album, Mad Rollers have done it for them. Their debut album was recorded by longtime Giuda producer Danilo Silvestri at Green Mountain Audio, and, in places, you can\u2019t see\/hear the join. I\u2019m divided; it\u2019s a great set of mega-catchy songs, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236","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=17236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17238,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions\/17238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}