★★★★★
Wisely retreating from the goofy humor of their debut, 1980s Cognac and Bologna (several of the songs are still funny, particularly the opening "Dangerous?," they're just less silly), Doug & the Slugs also toughen up their sound a little bit on 1981's Wrap It! Produced by Bryan Adams collaborator Jim Vallance, who plays up the Slugs' bar band strengths while minimizing the cutesiness that plagued the earlier album, this is a catchier album with stronger songs...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
The term "lightweight" is often used pejoratively in rock & roll. Doug & the Slugs, however, are musical lightweights in the best sense of the term: they work hard to deliver fun, light, entertaining records, of which Music for the Hard of Thinking is a prime example...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
Popaganda was Doug & The Slugs first effort for A&M; after being dropped by RCA for failing to connect with an American audience. Presumably the band was eager to please their new label (as well as anxious to show RCA that they had made a mistake), so their fourth album finds Doug Bennett and his cohorts trying hard to make their commercial breakthrough...
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2008-08-28
★★★★★
One of only three albums by Vancouver, British Columbia's Doug and the Slugs to manage a U.S. release, 1980s Cognac and Bologna is a textbook example of new wave bandwagon jumping, but it's not bad for all that. The Slugs were a fairly standard R&B-influenced; pop/rock bar band in the tradition of, say, Huey Lewis and the News, but a little image tweaking and some relatively hip graphics made the group seem like they were a little more daring than they really were...
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2008-08-28
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