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T. Harrison | TX | 02/24/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This second album from the Go is a well produced 70's throwback Detroit Rock album, with hints of stones and T-rex. It stands alone well, with several strong tracks. It's too bad they don't have a record label anymore. Some of the bar-chord boogie is tiresome, but other tracks really carry the CD.



Capricorn is T-Rex reborn, with a loud punk punch



Come-Back/Blue Eyes Woman are acoustic infused lost love ballads ala Dead Flowers/Just Waitin' on a Friend



He's been lying, this tune just haunts me. RAWKS!



Comparing them to these bands could be demeaning to both The Go and their influences, but these guys wear their heart on their sleeve and put out a strong effort in the process.



If you are a hard-core Jack White fan buy the "Whatcha Doin" CD instead (or also), but the production is way better on this one, and the band has obviously matured as well. If you put strong songs from both CD's together you end up with about a 12 song killer set. The strongest song on both albums is "Keep on Trash" from Watcha Doin, but be warned the mix down/production on most of that album is real bad.

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WAY TO GO!!!!

05/20/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

""When it finally happens it'll go something like this: The Go will plunge a syringe full of gasoline into rock's draggin ass and peel outta Motor City at 100mph, leaving only a cloud of exhaust and the stench of burning rubber in its wake. It'll drive circles around the rock-is-back zombies and drive the White Stripes off the road with its Lamborghini-fast, peacock-confident Nuggets fare. It'll be one hell-bound gypsy cab, and you'll be sorry you didn't hitch a ride sooner." Magnet, January 2004"Perhaps because it was released on the British Lizard King label, the Go's eponymous second album ranks as one of the more underappreciated records to come out of Detroit's post-White Stripes garage rock scene. Of course, Jack White has long since left the Go, but despite their lack of recording activity in the intervening years, they've evolved quite nicely, trading most of their debut's R&B inflections for a punchier, harder-rocking sound. Many of the songs on Go benefit from a glammy, T. Rex-derived stomp, which sits well alongside the other dominant influences: Iggy Pop, Exile on Main St.-era Rolling Stones, Nuggets-style garage and psych. A few songs come off as generic retro-garage, but on the whole, the band's songwriting has taken a major step forward, both in terms of melodicism and variety. The latter might be the album's greatest strength: there are minor pop gems ("Hardened Heart Blues," "Games," "He's Been Lying"), acoustic balladry ("Come Back"), hard-boiled, punked-out, quintessentially Detroit rockers ("American Pig," "Growd Up Wrong," "I Got It"), and tossed-off glam struts ("Ain't That Bad," "Blue Eyes Woman," "You Can Rock & Roll"), plus the bluesy, fuzzed-out groove of "Summer's Gonna Be My Girl," which falls in the great garage rock tradition of simple riffs and vamps built on as few chords as possible.
True, their songwriting isn't quite as indelible as that of their erstwhile bandmate Jack White, who works from a much wider stylistic palette; the Go never move beyond their '60s and '70s fixations, which is why they don't quite transcend their niche in the manner of the White Stripes. Still, there's no reason to fault them for not reinventing the wheel; Go is a solid, nifty little rock & roll record that places its creators among the most accomplished bands of the Detroit renaissance." AMG, March 2004"