★★★★★
There's something faintly noble about a career spent making the same album again and again. It tends to imply a genuine and unpretentious love of making music without the slightest desire to cater to changes in fashions. Unfortunately, it usually also involves flogging increasingly inferior variations on a theme to a loyal, but dwindling fanbase. It's probably fair to say that both descriptions apply to ska-punk pioneers The Mighty Mighty Bosstones as they approach their 29th year of operations...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
If I were asked to come up with an album title for a band that's been going for about 25 years (on and off), The Magic of Youth might not be the first thing that would spring to my mind. But the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, scarred from past battles (major line-up changes, a hiatus, the "death" of ska) retain a certain freshness, as well as a willingness, perhaps, to have an ironic jab at themselves, that justifies the title...
- www.punknews.org
2012-02-13
★★★★★
The bands that briefly rose to prominence in the early-to-mid-00's emo craze could do worse than follow the map set out by mid-90's ska hit-makers The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The band never overstayed it's welcome after their brief flirtation with mainstream success (the No...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-01-09
★★★★★
There's something faintly noble about a career spent making the same album again and again. It tends to imply a genuine and unpretentious love of making music without the slightest desire to cater to changes in fashions. Unfortunately, it usually also involves flogging increasingly inferior variations on a theme to a loyal, but dwindling fanbase. It's probably fair to say that both descriptions apply to ska-punk pioneers The Mighty Mighty Bosstones as they approach their 29th year of operations...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2012-01-02
★★★★★
Earlier this year, VH1 compiled a list of their "40 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '90s." Inexplicably, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "The Impression That I Get" came in at No. 25, right between Belly's still-classic "Feed the Tree" and Lou Bega's pernicious earworm "Mambo #5 (A Little Bit Of . . .)." When the show aired again in November, irate fans took to Twitter to defend the band and excoriate VH1 for denigrating the accomplishments of Boston's ska-core legends...
- thephoenix.com
2011-12-15
★★★★★
For a few months in 1997, ska-punk was trendy, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones cracked the Top 40. Singer Dicky Barrett might be thinking of that unlikely moment of mainstream acceptance when he rasps, "Sometimes you've gotta be a punchline" on the Boston octet's seventh album. Barrett bellows, horns bray and the Bosstones deliver blue-collar bromides with genuine enthusiasm, if not inventiveness. They aspire to transcend the party vibe with messages of faith and perseverance...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones seem to share several qualities with the spirits mentioned in the title of their eighth studio album, Pin Points And Gin Joints--aside from the bottles of Beefeater that appeared on the band's tour rider over the years. Like gin, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett's voice doesn't improve with age...
- www.altpress.com
2009-12-24
★★★★★
Let's Face It is the fifth album from wily Boston octet the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The Bosstones helped kick-start the ska-core movement in America a decade ago, giving newer, faster groups like Less Than Jake and the Suicide Machines a reason to live. On Let's Face It, singer Dicky Barrett and the crew take a shot at rootsier ska, as in the catchy "Royal Oil" and "The Rascal King" and pull it off reasonably well...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Where better to showcase the feral style of theMighty Mighty Bosstones' Dicky Barrett woofing to the manic rhythms of his Boston ska-punk juggernaut than on this hometown concert recording Live From the Middle East? Barrett races across 22 horn-punched thrashers like he's scented fox ? the kind of rabid, party-down performance you rarely hear on live sets these days. B+
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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