Suzi Quatro Your Mama Won't Like Me/Aggro Phobia CD - Import

This two-fer CD collects 1975's YOUR MAMMA WON'T LIKE ME and 1976's AGGRO-PHOBIA by glam-pop idol Suzi Quatro.

The divine Miss Q's third album is, unfortunately, the least divine of them all, an album that finds her in catatonic chrysalis stage, midway through the reinvention that turned the early '70s' most convincing rocker chick into the later decade's homespun sweetheart. Maybe she was, as the song says, "A Prisoner of Your Imagination" -- or, at least, of her own former image, which was much the same thing. But there were surely better ways of unlocking the cage than this. Both "Your Mama Won't Like Me" and "I Bit off More Than I Can Chew," spun off as singles during 1975, offer little more than watered-down power balladry, still playing on Quatro's bad-girl image but determined that no one would take it seriously any longer. Neither is the absence of any of the stripped-down '50s covers, which had previously given her an excuse to blast out, remedied by a lukewarm "Fever." Thankfully, this diversion into mediocrity was swiftly remedied by her next couple of albums, and time has repaired any damage that they failed to address. But still, the album's title demands just one rejoinder. Of course your mama won't like her -- she's not stupid. ~ Dave Thompson

Produced By Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman. Includes The Hit 'I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew' & A Cover Of The Big Steve Harley UK Number 1, 'Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)'. 1975 & 1976 Albums On 1 CD.

2 LPs on 1 CD: YOUR MAMA WON"T LIKE ME (1975)/AGGRO-PHOBIA (1976).

Personnel: Suzi Quatro (vocals); Len Tuckey (guitar, background vocals); Lennie Tuckey (guitar); Mick Eve (saxophone, tenor saxophone); Bud Beadle (saxophone, baritone saxophone); Steve Gregory (saxophone); Chris Mercer (tenor saxophone); Ron Carthy (trumpet); Mike Deacon (keyboards, background vocals); Dave Neal (drums).

Liner Note Author: Alan Clayson.

Recording information: Audio International Studios, London, England; RAK Records Mobiles, Chateau Du Regard, Coye La Foret,.

Photographer: Gered Mankowitz.