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Popa Chubby - Brooklyn Basement Blues Audio CD

A fair review of the Popa Chubby "Brooklyn Basement Blues" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Popa Chubby reviews here, or go back to the Popa Chubby tabs.

Popa Chubby Band: Popa Chubby
Title: Brooklyn Basement Blues
Rating:
Release Date: 1999-09-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Shakedown 2: If It Feels Like Love 3: Rats Get Whacked 4: She Said That Evil Was Her Name 5: Transformation 6: Arlita 7: White Devil 8: The Wind Cries Mary 9: Meat Helmet 10: I've Been Loving You Too Long 11: You Can't Keep a Brother Down

Not his best album but ...
"Booty and the Beast" and "One Million Broken Guitars' are both 5 star efforts. Four stars is not bad for an album tht is not nearly as good as some of his earlier work. Popa is one of the best blues guitarists out there, and I've seen most of them. Deserves more recognition. Maybe it's his crazy psydonym that holds him back.


Oh no...
Popa Chubby better not lose any weight because that's his only novelty. . yuck.


Cudos from a former "Chubby" bigot
Now I own all of them. I have to admit, for years I passed up Popa Chubby albums before I finally broke down and bought this one used. The first album I saw was "one Million Broken Guitars", I would look at this fat (and yes, kinda' ugly) guy covered in tatoos on the cover and think to myself, "what is this?,. . . some kind of rap'n'blues garbage?,. . . or maybe this guy is just screamer who turns his amp up really loud so you can't tell how bad his playing is?".

Well, I couldn't have been more wrong. Popa Chubby is a talented musician and song writer. He moves from hard rockers to slightly twisted (but FUN!) ballads such as 'Her name was Evil' and 'Rats get Whacked'. Granted, not every song is a winner; 'Looking Back' is just plain awful, but most of them are well worth listening to: fast and clear guitar playing, decent vocals and sometimes great lyrics.

If you haven't tried a "Chubby" yet, start with "Brooklyn Basement Blues" or "Booty and the Beast". If your taste runs a little more towards hard rock, "Gas Money" would also be a good choice.

As for the reviewer who commented that "you should stick with Dave Hole. . . "; I have all of Dave Holes' albums so far, but if his next album doesn't show a little more depth, I won't buy it. Except for "Ticket to Chicago" (a great album) and arguably "Short Fuse Blues" (a very good album), his stuff all sounds the same - LOUD SLIDE GUITAR dominates everything else. You can't hear any of the notes because they're so distorted, and his voice is barely adequate (especially on his last album).

If that's what you like, great. But if you want to be able to hear the music and the lyrics, and be able to tell one song from another; with a mix of fast and slow, easy and hard, serious blues and a little tongue-in-cheek,. . . then give Chubby a try.


Isn't the joke over yet?
This album is no exception, without a single redeeming quality. Popa Chubby may have fooled the graybeards who run the awful NYC blues club scene, but anyone who doesn't have a tin ear realizes that Chubby has yet to pen a single decent song, plays woefully too loud, and has gone through more recording contracts than Carter's has liver pills. Please, blues labels, start signing artists with actual talent and not cartoon characters. If it isn't Curly here, it's 13-year-old girls. Enough already.


Gimme a break
YUK. . I just don't see it! Of course everyone has their own opinion and in my humble opinion, if you want some blues/rock, stick with Dave Hole (Short Fuse Blues)or Johnny Winter (Third Degree). They make this guy look like Barry Manilow.


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