George Thorogood Bad To The Bone CD

George Thorogood's first album for a major label became his commercial breakthrough precisely because it was business as usual. Again, it's a brash, rowdy take on the blues that owes as much to '60s garage bands and punk as it does to Muddy ...    Full DescriptionWaters. That connection is made particularly explicit here via a stomping take on the Human Beinz' '60s punk classic "Nobody But Me," itself a radical deconstruction of the Isely Brothers' original.

The title tune, of course, has become Hollywood's leading signifier of a character's toughness--pretty funny if you've ever seen the transparently goofy Thorogood mugging his way through the song on MTV. Elsewhere on the album, he renders buzz-saw homage to Chuck Berry and John Lee Hooker. But the album's most interesting moment comes on the sleazy sounding, dirge-like "As the Years Go Passing By." The group suddenly recalls John Lennon's one-time backing band, Elephants Memory, which had cut its musical teeth playing in strip joints--and sounded like it.   Hide Description