Baddest of George Thorogood and the Destroyers

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's good to have all of Thorogood's biggest hits in one place, but Baddest is pretty skimpy on the perennial album-radio cuts, substituting bonus tracks and second-line material. "Ride On Josephine", for example, isn't here. Neither are Chuck Berry's "No Particular Place to Go", "Night Time", and a number of other staples. More suspicious still, "Bad to the Bone" appears with a new remix. Hmm. Looks like someone's leaving some slack for a Volume 2. Since the Thorogood catalogue is fairly big, it wouldn't pay to track down his highlights album-by-album, but the Live CD will set you up pretty well. --Gavin McNett

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2003-07-01 rating:
The best overview of Thorogood's career
At twelve tracks this album may seem a little short, but it does actually contain almost all of the Delaware slide guitarist's very best songs, and considering how generally similar Thorogood's output has been, the 30-track "Anthology" is just too much.

But this fine selection is just right, and George Thorogood and the Destroyers rock on his trademark "Bad To The Bone", a bluesy rendition of Hank Williams' "Move It On Over", and the Thorogood originals "I Drink Alone" and "If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)".

The arrangements are all very similar, and a bit of variation would have been nice (maybe some boogie piano perhaps), but that is a minor complaint. Thorogood's brand of blues-rock may be simple, but it is to the point, and it rocks!

Finally, if this excellent introduction whets your appetite for more, go for the 2003 collection of George Thorogood's early output "Who Do You Love" (which has only three overlaps with this CD), or the raw "Live In '99".


review by: date: 2000-03-02 rating:
Truly the baddest!
Forget all your wimpy boy bands, and soppy Titanic ballads, this is real downhome drinkin' and fightin' music. Pounding drum, wailing and honking sax, slide guitar and attitude. Straight down the line rock 'n' roll and blues, in the spirit of Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones. Sometimes the remixing is a bit too sharp, but that is a minor quibble, when you are getting classics like "Gear jammer", "I drink alone" and "You talk too much" on one volume... good boys night out songs.

The neighbours will hate you, your ears will love you - buy this and play loud as an antidote to all the mass produced pap you hear everywhere else.

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