★★★★★
Watch out, Ted Nugent, or these you-know-whats (I'm sure I don't) are gonna knock you off the cover of Creem. You're not the only one who can make up stories about eating it raw.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
At first I dismissed this as market fatigue--it's hard to act like you're still discovering your formula on your fourth album in twenty-one months. With no help from a peaked-sounding Victor Willis--shouters should avoid even the appearance of laryngitis--it came off as a tuneless disco tribute to John Philip Sousa that omitted the "Stars and Stripes Forever" cover only because Jacques Morali doesn't control Sousa's publishing. But now I kind of enjoy it...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
On Love in a Sleeper, which supports the theory that disco is mostly the fast food of popular music, Silver Convention functions as Chatty Cathy dolls who make noises whenever producer Michael Kunze pulls the strings. Without any attractive lead vocals or creative vocal interplay (when Penny McLean departed, she apparently took the group's personality with her), these three women are embarrassingly upstaged by the Munich-Philadelphia production...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Recently, seven of the Top Ten singles in America were disco-related. Having made it as the Next Big Thing, disco now faces the challenge of sustaining its popularity against the relentless monotony of its four-beat.Not since the late Fifties, when the music business jumped on the rock & roll bandwagon, has so much junk been shoved onto the marketplace so hastily. With the obvious exceptions of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
I give up--I've never been capable of resisting music this silly. At least this time they're not singing the praises of "macho," a term whose backlash resurgence is no laughing matter, and the gay stereotyping--right down to "The Women," every one a camp heroine of screen or disc--is so cartoonish that I can't imagine anyone taking it seriously. As for all the straights who think "Y.M.C.A." is about playing basketball, well, that's pretty funny too...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-06-06
★★★★★
In spite of looking like village idiots, the Village People surprised everybody with this popular four-song album. Phil Hurtt, a good friend of Thom Bell, and the writer of "I'll Be Around" arranged, and coauthor three songs. Produced by Henri Belolo and Jacques Morali (Ritchie Family) Village People exploits and promotes gay liberation, in a little over 20 minutes of music...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Capitalizing on the success of past glories, which included "Macho Man" and "Y.M.C.A.," Village People hoped to breach those disco peaks once more. Iconographic darlings of the discotheques, the band found themselves becoming middle America's new favorites in the wake of 1978's Cruisin' LP, so it was no surprise that the release of Go West saw the band reach the Top Ten for the second time in Spring 1979...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Live albums by studio-constructed groups are always a bit weird, but the Village People's Live and Sleazy (possibly the greatest title for a live album, ever) is an entity unto itself. Released in 1979, just after the group's popularity peaked but before the downfall began, the album captures the group running through their best known songs "live" in concert -- much of this was doctored in the studio, after the fact...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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