★★★★★
Chubby Checker was no rock 'n' roll pioneer or R&B innovator but he knew how to have fun singing about dancing apart to the beat...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-03-07
★★★★★
Chubby Checker goes psychedelic! In 1971, while living in Holland, the Twister King released a super rare album with some unknown hippie band backing him. Echoes of Hendrix and Arthur Lee circa 'Vindicator' can be heard on the heavy grooves contained on this record: killer hard guitar, powerful vocals, garagey organ, trippy lyrics, some introspective moments...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Before The Fat Boys gave him a comeback hit of sorts with The Twist (Yo Twist!) in 1988, Chubby Checker's last trip to the charts had been back in 1965 when he scraped into the US Top 50 with Let's Do The Freddie, a half-hearted discotheque coronach based around the irksome on-stage gyrations of flash-in-the-pan UK pop gurner Freddy Garrity. A pop career over, at the age of 24? Well, not quite...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Good thing too, since the cd reissue is now out of print. Our review of it follows...When you think deep soulful psychedelic tinged rock the first name that probably does NOT come to mind is Chubby Checker. But guess what, he did in fact brew up a totally potent batch of psych rock burners that somehow slipped completely under the radar...
- aquariusrecords.org
2009-07-10
★★★★★
"Chubby Checker goes psychedelic! In 1971, while living in Holland, the Twister King released a super rare album with some unknown hippie band backing him. Echoes of Hendrix and Arthur Lee circa 'Vindicator' can be heard on the heavy grooves contained on this record: killer hard guitar, powerful vocals, garagey organ, trippy lyrics, some introspective moments...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-26
★★★★★
When you think deep soulful psychedelic tinged rock the first name that probably does NOT come to mind is Chubby Checker. But guess what, he did in fact brew up a totally potent batch of psych rock burners that somehow slipped completely under the radar. Apparently Chubby was living in Holland in 1971 when he hooked up with some eccentric and unknown hippie rockers who all seemed to be smoking some seriously good stuff and together they recorded this batch of seriously scorching tracks...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
When you think deep soulful psychedelic tinged rock the first name that probably does NOT come to mind is Chubby Checker. But guess what, he did in fact brew up a totally potent batch of psych rock burners that somehow slipped completely under the radar. Apparently Chubby was living in Holland in 1971 when he hooked up with some eccentric and unknown hippie rockers who all seemed to be smoking some seriously good stuff and together they recorded this batch of seriously scorching tracks...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-03-20
★★★★★
When you think deep soulful psychedelic tinged rock the first name that probably does NOT come to mind is Chubby Checker. But guess what, he did in fact brew up a totally potent batch of psych rock burners that somehow slipped completely under the radar. Apparently Chubby was living in Holland in 1971 when he hooked up with some eccentric and unknown hippie rockers who all seemed to be smoking some seriously good stuff and together they recorded this batch of seriously scorching tracks...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2008-11-12
★★★★★
Listening to Twist With Chubby Checker is similar to listening to a Chuck Berry record -- after a few minutes, you realize that the songs are just a series of variations on the same chord progressions with different lyrics. However, you also realize that the charisma of the performer is substantial enough to make such an enterprise interesting and, in fact, fun to listen to...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27