Iron Age

Artist: Mother's Finest
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 664140930223
EAN: 0664140930223
ASIN: B000093FKP

Release Date: 2003-04-15

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Tracks:

Movin' On
Luv Drug
Rock 'N' Roll2 Nite
U Turn Me On
All the Way
Evolution
Illusion (C'mon Over to My House)
Time
Gone With th' Rain
Earthling

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Customer Reviews:

'Iron Age' = MASTERPIECE!.......2007-02-08

To the guy who is calling 'Iron Age' softer than toothpaste - what are you smokin'?! This album RAWKS like....... a mutha! In fact, IA is MOTHER'S FINEST masterpiece and has stood the test of time extremely well. There has never been a better blend of no frills hard rock, groove and funk EVER - electrifying opener 'Movin' On' just absolutely grabs you by the throat and never lets go and the rest isn't far behind in terms of quality. The icing on the cake, of course, are Joyce 'Baby Jean' Kennedy's sensational Tina Turner-on-steroids vocals - I get goosebumps just thinking about how this lady can belt it out and combine power and soul like very few others. Hubby Glenn Murdock ain't no sloutch either but Joyce wears the pants so to speak when it comes to the vox dept. in MF. Sadly the band sort of fizzled after this barnburner and the follow-up 'If Looks Could Kill' (NOT!) was utter cheese. However, they returned to form on 'Black Radio Won't Play This Record', another true gem that ranks only slighty below 'Iron Age.' Too bad America seems to have largely forgotten about this amazing band while Europe has embraced them ever since their legendary 'Rockpalast' gig in the late 70's. Either way, 'Iron Age' is absolutely essential for any fan of funked up 80's hard rock!

soft rock?????.......2006-11-09

Anybody who thinks this is rock , must have rocks for brains . This is soft touch pop rock and not in rocks league, damn i have rockier toothpaste .

Hard on.......2006-08-15

This is pure, old hard rock with a metallic touché. This female singer, Baby Jean Kennedy, shows it all.

This album could've easily went 10x platinum back in '81........2003-08-26

THERE, I SAID IT! I'll even go as far as to say 'Iron Age' ranks right up there with AC/DC's 'Back in Black' and Guns & Roses' 'Appetite For Destruction' for being among the best hard rock music ever laid down in the '80s. So it's really a downright disgrace for this band to not have made it after dropping this inspired effort on their part. If there ever was a breakthrough album waiting to happen for a band that could've sorely used one at that point in time, IT WAS THIS ONE!!! I mean every track on 'Iron Age' had the potential to be a big hit for Mother's Finest, especially the first 5 on the album (which are INCREDIBLE to say the least). Besides, there was NO rock band on the face of the earth that had two vocalists as talented and soulful as Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy and Glenn Murdock, not by a longshot. They showed that one didn't necessarily have to rip their vocal chords to shreds in order to qualify as a rock singer-just possess a strong voice with sound technique and everything else will fall into place.

So what went wrong with Mother's Finest after this album was released over 20 years ago? Same reason as before it seems: record company just won't promote a predominantly African-American band playing straight-up hard rock no matter how talented they happen to be. It sounds pretty discriminatory, but I honestly can't see any other reason as viable as the one I've given here. Maybe if the band's A&R people weren't so busy trying to pass them off as just another run-of-the-mill R&B/funk/soul act, then history might've been a whole lot different concerning this sadly overlooked band that never was given a fair chance at having their moment of triumph on account of their SKIN COLOR.

Note: this is also why I no longer listen to the FM dial (save for a few public stations) or tune into MTV, VH-1, and especially BET for that matter. It's time for the madness to stop, the sooner the better.

A priceless classic for the (iron) ages.......2003-07-19

I bought Iron Age on vinyl when it was first released. Incredible! There are a relatively small number of truly great rock albums ever made. This is one of them.

As more than one reviewer has noted, one of life's biggest questions is 'Why didn't this band achieve superstar status?' Perhaps they were simply ahead of their time -- primarily black rock musicians in what was then, at least, a primarily white music genre. But make no mistake: This band ROCKS. MF is unquestionably the most exciting live rock band I ever saw, and I've seen them all. MF was always a 'warm-up' band when I saw them (twice); never a headliner. But every group they opened for was a letdown after MF had finished wiping out the audience.

If you are only going to get one MF CD, this is THE one to get. I've waited years to find this on cd. Each individual song is worth the price of the entire cd. Buy it with confidence, knowing that you're in for a treat. This is heavy metal with a heart of soul. Rock just doesn't get much better than this!

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