The Cynics - Rock 'N' Roll
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Reviews:
By mptesteroni
It must be hard to name your album Rock and Roll, it's too brash a statement with the potential for promising way more than average bands can handle. Not a problem for the Cynics. This masterpiece is the very Definition of Rock and Roll. This is hands down their best album, when I got this one home on vinyl I was SHAKING. Play side 2 (er, tracks 8 through 14) first,the CD plays like a garage band opera with MUCH more impact if you start with "Baby What's Wrong", put "The Room" in the middle, kick the tension back up with "You Got The Love" and let your whole world come crashing down in the dynamics of "Cry, Cry, Cry", which features the most blood-curdling rock scream EVER. Do not attempt to debate this with me, I will not be moved! If somebody would PLEASE, GOD! re-release this and The Miracle Worker's Overdose on CD, I could die a happy man knowing kids men and women everywhere could get their hands on such glorious genius. Too good to die, ever.
By "greymouser"
The spirits from The Seeds, Gonn, The Litter, The Del-Vetts, The Saints, and many other great bands, assisted Kostelich and Kastelic in creating the most devastating rock (of any denomination) album of past four decades. Incredibly tight playing, murderous sound, 14 intoxicating tunes and Michael's banshee wail make this record my favorite punk album of all times. This is the piece of recording that any garage, punk or trash band has to live up to, whether it existed during the sixties or hasn't been borne yet. This music will lift you way high when you're down and throw you into fits when it's time to party, and its effects are as wonderful as those of your drug of choice, illegal or not. Needless to say, the Cynics, like so many other great unknowns, such us the Scientists or the Original Sins, broke apart before they could inoculate the masses with their virulent and contagious brand of garage punk.
garage punk cd CYNICS – ROCK’N’ROLL Third album by Pittsburgh Garage finest. This release from 1990 featured a major lineup change for the Cynics, and showed the band continuing to mature as writers and musicians. Cuts like “Now I’m Alone” and “Girl, You’re on My Mind” (the latter penned for the Cynics by the Mystic Eyes Bernie Kugel) are hits that should have been. Other cuts like “What You Get,” “Business As Usual,” “Baby, What’s Wrong” and “Way It’s Gonna Be” show the Cynics at a peak of energy, creativity and ability. This release also includes a few well-chosen covers of forgotten classics from the sixties, revitalized with the Cynics style and skill. “Cry, Cry, Cry” and “Last Time Around” are scorchers, while “The Room” shows the Cynics lighter side. This album is a true classic. If you didn’t get it before, get it now.
Matt Carlson, All Music Guide
Rock 'N' Roll brings together the best aspects of The Cynics' previous two albums -- R&B roots, psychedelic fuzz, folk-pop, and garage rock -- to produce a cohesive statement. The record, despite its collection of heartfelt ballads, does not contain one single down note. Sure, a lot of fury and pain, but not any grief. While the original compositions on previous Cynics albums were mostly harder-edged as the ballads were mostly covers, here the band has written a killer love song, "Close To Me." But, yet again, the livelier pop songs -- "Girl, You're On My Mind" and "You Got the Love" -- are where The Cynics shine.
Track Listing:
01 - Baby, What's Wrong
02 - Way It's Gonna Be
03 - Girl, You're On My Mind
04 - Get My Way
05 - Tears Are Coming
06 - Business As Usual
07 - Cry, Cry, Cry
08 - You Got The Love
09 - Close To Me
10 - Different World's
11 - Now I'm Alone
12 - What You Get
13 - Last Time Around
14 - The Room
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