Great American Music

Great American Music Artist: The Good Rats
Label: Passport
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 798437071020
EAN: 0798437071020
ASIN: B00000IK8Y


Release Date: 1999-02-16

Great American Music


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Tracks:

  1. New York Survivor
  2. Julie
  3. Audience
  4. Hollywood Ending
  5. Great American Music Halls
  6. Yes Or No
  7. Icy Cold
  8. On My Way To School
  9. Oh So Good
  10. Rock And Roll Point Of View

Similar Items:

  1. Birth Comes to Us All
  2. The Good Rats
  3. Live at Last
  4. Rat City in Blue
  5. Tasty Seconds

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good CD but not near the best.......2004-05-29

I've been a Rats fan since the 70's. Growing up on Long Island there were only three bands that mattered locally, Zebra, Twisted Sister and THE GOOD RATS! The Rats defied description. After many years together guitar virtuoso John "The Cat" Gatto left the band along with long time bassist Lenny Kotke. This CD severely lacks Johns "jazzy" playing which made the Rats so special on previous CDs. Bruce Kulick plays straight rock guitar - which isn't bad - it just takes the Rats down a notch. Good CD not great. Peppi to this day writes great lyrics about real life. The songs here are just above average. The band just isn't "cooking" like they use too. The true end of an era and the end to the Greatest Unknown Band in the world. Buy Live At Last and Tasty to see what all the fuss was about!

5 out of 5 stars Great American Music rocks!.......2001-07-13

The Good Rats have ALWAYS made excellent rock & roll, from their early days until their last album with the original band. "Great American Music" continues the Good Rats tradition of excellent writing by Peppi Marchello and the excellent musicianship of it's band members. This incarnation of the Rats includes Bruce Kulick (who went on to play with Kiss) and Skyler Deale whose bass playing still amazes me to this day. It's a shame the band folded shortly after the tour for this album. My favorites on this record (not in any order!) are Julie, Audience, N.Y survivor, On my way to school and Rock and roll point of view. The band sounded just as good live as they do on record, I really miss the original Good rats, there is a NEW Good Rats band however they sound nothing like the originals and the only original member in it is Peppi. I'm in the process of trying to get all the Good Rats CDs but they are hard to come by for some reason. All my albums are played out now. I'd recommend ANY and ALL CDS by the rats, you just can't go wrong with any of them!

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Searching for Contact ~ Steven Brown
  2. Mann Alive ~ Manfred Mann
  3. Substatic ~ Peter Jefferies
  4. Adventure ~ Furslide
  5. Sons of Beaches ~ Australian Crawl
  6. The RCA Sessions ~ Roy Orbison , and Sonny James
  7. Waiting for the Day ~ Bachelor Girl
  8. Something to Believe In ~ APB
  9. Unofficial National Anthems, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists
  10. Aquarello ~ Roedelius

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Circle Waltz ~ Don Friedman

The Best of the Blue Note Years ~ Bobby Hutcherson

Carnaval ~ Spyro Gyra

Bringing Back Some Basics

'Nuff Said! ~ Nina Simone

Millennium ~ Aline Barros

E D Plus ~ E D Plus

Alo Malandragem Maloca O Flagrante ~ Bezerra Da Silva

Os Gatos ~ Gatos

Kenji Shock ~ Kenji Omura