★★★★★
August 1994: Ft. Worth, Texas four-piece known as the Toadies drop Rubberneck, their seminal LP that-though not marketed as a concept album-narrates like the sinister soliloquy of a Southern sermonizer, awash with sin but assured of salvation. April 1995: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, in conjunction with DC Vertigo Comics drop their iconic Preacher, the warped story of a Texas minister possessed by an angel-demon union on the hunt for morality and a God who has abandoned heaven. Coincidence...
- www.punknews.org
2014-04-09
★★★★★
If you were around and musically savvy during the mid-'90s, you might have had an experience such as mine when it came to the alt-rock sounds of the Texan group Toadies. I saw their album Rubberneck in music stores, thought about picking it up based on a little bit of press I'd read, but didn't. I never heard them on the radio...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-29
★★★★★
Sound: This is a great album, and probably the group's best known album to date. It is considered by many to be grunge or post-grunge, but I think the sound of this album is more like straightforward rock with a hint of southern rock. It is also one of the few "alternative rock" albums of the early 90's that had a little more emphasis on solos. The most popular song off this album is "Possum Kingdom", which broke the Toadies into the mainstream the year it was released...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
As if they'd never disbanded and spent seven years doing everything but playing together, Fort Worth, TX, rockers the Toadies have delivered a spanking new album that proves true musical talent transcends time. "No Deliverance" doesn't regurgitate the memorable bass line of 1994's smash "Possum Kingdom" or other catchy hooks from days past that really worked for them--though maybe a touch of the warped imagery (anyone remember "Tyler?") does resurface...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-06
★★★★★
Sound: When I heard The Toadies were back together and possibly recording new material (almost a year ago) I was psyched. I waited and waited for the new album, and I think I may have over-hyped it to myself, if that makes any sense. I went and bought the album last night, the first day it came out. I listened to it a few times that night, and I'm listening to it now. The sound is different than the classic Toadies sound that we've heard in Rubberneck and Hell Below/Stars Above...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Arriving a mere seven years behind its predecessor, No Deliverance is a concordant entry in the Toadies' sparse but unvaried discography. The guitars are a little heavier; Vaden Todd Lewis' voice is a little deeper and just a little choked. Yet by and large, the Fort Worth quartet delivers the same pounding midtempo hard rock, arranged into oddly timed riffs, that went into both previous Toadies albums...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Way back in 1994, the Toadies released Rubberneck, their debut full-length album. It featured the single, "Possum Kingdom," which you've almost certainly heard, even if you had no idea who the band was. Then, the band disappeared...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Fort Worth, Texas, alt-rockers the Toadies have a track record you could call sparse -- two full-length albums in seven years -- which is a shame, considering their debut, Rubberneck went platinum. This, their third LP, is a rare animal: a live best-of set. Recorded in Boston last year, Live From Paradise cuts hard and rocks out. The album comprises the prime cuts from their previous platters and two new ones, "ATF" and a cover of the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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