Golden EARRING ... Indeed! This band Needs No Introduction. Golden EARRING Has Been Going Strong Now FOR 51 Years. (2012) Tits 'n Ass Marks The Releaseof their 25th studio album. No less than 9 years toOK them To come with A new release, but it isA pieceofArt . Not that IT Will Top Timeless Classics Such as "Moontan" Or "Cut," But it is an album with all The key ingredientsFORA Classic Rock Album. Cast Aside The Tacky Title and The Herrid CoverArt ... it is Time FORA Spin!
"Tits'n Ass" proves To be The workingSPACEofAband That almost Seamlessly Follows Each Others Ideas, Creating Some Brilliant Rock Tunes. The Album Sounds Inspired and Driven with Hay and Kooymans Delivering The Goods as is. Containing Powerful Grooving Bass and Drums, Slick Melodies, and Driving Guitars. Barry Hay is gifted with A hoarse voice and typical Sound that isThe binding factorOn their albums. It is Because of The Vocal Interaction between Kooymans and Hay, as well asThe bass and drum interaction,of Gerritsen and Zuiderwijk, that GoldenEARRINGSounds Exactly as they in bonded by Blood.
Don't Expect New Renditions of "Radar LOVE " Or "Twilight Zone." This dutch quartet is way too stubbornTo Repeat itself.
Instead, The band has come up with 14Timeless Rock Songs which are drenched in Blood and Sweat. Loud, Roaring and Inspired. Drive performances like in The Opening Hammer "Identical," Or The Dutch Upbeat Hit Single "STILL Got my keysTo MyFirstCadillac "Stand out as usual. Blues Rocker "My Little Time Bomb," The Gloomy "Just inTime "And" Acrobats and Clowns "Feature IngredientsFromThe Past inA carefully crafted modernSound . It is The Sound which shot throughMindOnTheband 'S Predecessor "Millbrook USA"
Humming Twin Guitars, Riffs Thick as Mud with A Sizzling Southern Underertone, The Ghostof 38 Special is present, ThanksToThe Collaboration with American instrumentalist Frank Carillo. It is HIS mark upon songs which elevates The overallSoundOn "Avenueof Broken Dreams, "" OverThe Cliff and IntoThe DeepBLUE "Or" Flowers in The Mud. "A Mark that is reminiscentTo Mellencamp OrThe Riverdogs. Or even Too Stay Closer To Theband ,,The markof Barry Hay. HIS Solo album "Victory of Bad Taste " (1987) So Featured This Southern Overhaul, and andTo me isOneofThe Best Rock AlbumsRecorded inThe Netherlands. It is The vibe present On "Tits 'n Ass ' as well.
Perhaps there's not as many classics On The album asOne Might Expect After 9 Yearsof Composing, but there is isA Certain Buzz InflictingTheband with tremendous passion and pleasureOn This album. A Live Feel in Studio, The Way Golden EARRING is at their very best. A Vibe, if You like ...
"What do I Know about LOVE ," and "thisLOVE "AreThe Typical GoldenEARRING Ballads, but lacquerThe Passion Songs Like "GoingToThe Run "or" another 45 miles "had. Composed Rather Safe, Too Much In The Vein of Those Tunes.
Now Rocking Steady FOR 51 Years (2012), Golden EARRING Has Again Crafted an album which is slick as it is hard Knuckled, Bold and Raw as it is polished. Not Always Bearing The Mark ofA Masterpiece, it certainly fits in their extensive catalog. And if it fits in The Catalogueof halfA centuryof rockMUSIC and Rock History, IT Will Certainly Fit in your CD/lp Collection! (Edwin van Hoof, May 22, 2012, UntratedMagazine.com)
Tits' n Ass Is Available as A Limited Editionof 1000 individualallyNumbered Copies On Translucent RED Colored VINYL . This 2 lp is house in A Gatefold Sleeve and Includes an INSERT with Lyrics. ( Music On Vinyl )
George Kooymans - Guitar, Vocals
Barry Hay - Vocals
Rinus Gerritsen - Bass, keyboards
Casar zuiderwijk - drums
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Frank Carillo - Slide Guitar, Rhythm Guitar
Jan Royymans - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Pandit Dinesh - percussion (Track 7)
Pearl Jozefzoon - Backing Vocals (Track 5, 8)
Ruth Zang - Backing Vocals (Track 5, 8)