R2 review of PAUL COLLINS “Feel The Noise”
PAUL COLLINS’ “Feel The Noise” on Goldmine’s Top 20 Releases Of 2014
18. Paul Collins – “Feel the Noise”
One of the last of the class of ’79 who continues to proudly wave the power pop flag, Paul Collins is still down in the trenches, touring across the country and beyond and releasing excellent records such as this. Collins rocks like a man half his age on Feel the Noise, and his energy and enthusiasm is contagious. Two of the coolest tracks are ones that Collins has unearthed from the past: the outstanding, Nerves-era raver “Little Suzy” and the Collins-Steven Huff co-write “For All Eyes to See.” (Huff was a charter member of The Beat.) Other tracks worthy of repeated spins are the super-catchy “Only Girl”; “With a Girl Like You,” which sounds like it could have sprung from a Collins collaboration with the Searchers and Phil Spector; “Can’t Get You Off My Mind,” which recalls the Ramones’ “I Want You Around”; and the rollicking, Buddy Holly-ish “Baby I’m in Love With You.”
The BLUES Magazine : RADIO MOSCOW “Magical Dirt” Best Of 2014
SWAMP DOGG on KTLA
The BLUES Magazine : HANDSOME JACK “Do What Comes Naturally” Best Of 2014
The BLUES Magazine : John The CONQUEROR “The Good Life” Best Of 2014
HANDSOME JACK’s “Do What Comes Naturally” lands on MUSIC NEWS Top 28 Albums of 2014
HANDSOME JACK’s “Do What Comes Naturally” lands on MUSIC NEWS Top 28 Albums of 2014!
HOLLIS BROWN, RADIO MOSCOW & PAUL COLLINS made The Record Changer top ten list of 2014
1. Gets Loaded – Hollis Brown (Alive)
2. Nobody’s Baby – Miriam (Norton)
3. Trilogy – Chick Corea Trio (Concord Jazz)
4. The Endless River – Pink Floyd (Columbia)
5. The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale – Eric Clapton & Friends (Surfdog)
6. Hypnotic Eye – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (Reprise)
7. Going Back Home – Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey (Chess)
8. The Way I’m Livin’ – Lee Ann Womack (Sugar Hill)
9. Feel The Noise – Paul Collins (Alive)
10. Magical Dirt – Radio Moscow (Alive)
The BLOODHOUNDS on BLURT Magazine list of Top 100 Albums of 2014
THE BLOODHOUNDS – Let Loose! (Alive Naturalsound) WE SAID: On the East L.A. quartet’s debut album they reaches back to the pre-psychedelic days of ‘50s R&B and ‘60s garage rock, sticking in the main to the classic two guitars/bass/drums formula stamped into eternity by the Rolling Stones and the Beatles a half century ago. It’s a pretty basic setup, but the ‘Hounds make it fresh, sounding like they’re having a blast jumpin’ in the night.