CD REVIEW: THE CONNECTION – Just For Fun
CD REVIEW: THE CONNECTION – Just For Fun
Rumbar Records
February 2017
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7 ½ /10
The Connection pitch a kinghitter with their fourth album, Just For Fun, which does exactly what it says on the tin.
Entering the studio late last year, The Connection set about having a blast, blasting out some of their favourite tunes, and caught the action on tape as they went.
The result is a good time party waiting to happen!
Bob Seger’s Get Out Of Denver is given the Chuck Berry treatment with a fiery groove; The Dictators’ Stay With Me is overloaded with Jason & the Scorchers charm and a Cheap Trick edge; Gary Lewis & the Playboys’ I Can Read Between The Lines has its roots in early Beatles pop; there’s more country edge on the Glaser/Howard standard Streets Of Baltimore; The Stone’s No Expectations gets the pop punk treatment; and Cheap Trick’s Southern Girls sounds like an unreleased garage demo.
I dunno about ‘just for fun’ – this entire album has such a cool vibe and catchy groove, it could soundtrack our next party!
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