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Morningwood
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

  • Summary: Gil Norton (Pixies) produced this debut album for the New York-based punk/new wave outfit.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 3 out of 12
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    As brainless butt-shaking goes, it's still a pretty good ride. [20 Jan 2006, p.71]
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  2. Billboard
    70
    It's hard to take the band too seriously, but the songs are debaucherous fun. [14 Jan 2006]
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  3. E! Online
    67
    The music on the group's debut album... feels as if it was inspired by awkward adolescent feel-up LPs by the likes of Pat Benatar and Cheap Trick.
  4. Village Voice
    50
    Calculated space-age power rock.
  5. AllMusic
    50
    Morningwood still feels like calculated fluff, even if it's calculated fluff that's mildly fun.
  6. Slant Magazine
    40
    Sure, Morningwood is trashy, enjoyable, and utterly insignificant entertainment, but so is shotgunning a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
  7. Prefix Magazine
    30
    Sounds like a band mashing all the current trends and ending up with nothing.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 27
  3. Negative: 7 out of 27
  1. driffynow75
    Dec 18, 2006
    10
    morning wood band / good sound of record. the album Nth degree i llove it. cool !!!++
  2. funnestfunnorer
    Apr 18, 2006
    10
    why do they have the worst parts of the reviews in the ittle blurbs? the band is great.
  4. ErinL
    Apr 19, 2006
    10
    morning wood= good music. cant argue with that. nope... im not listening to you whine. freaking emos....
  5. Matt
    Jan 18, 2006
    8
    Boy is this album being underrated by critics. Chantal Claret is delightfully sneering some times and playfully Go-Gos like other times. I Boy is this album being underrated by critics. Chantal Claret is delightfully sneering some times and playfully Go-Gos like other times. I had lots of fun.… Expand
  6. JeikuAsakura
    Mar 4, 2021
    8
    This album is really great. From Jetsetter to Nth Degree. I would definitely reccommend this neo-classic album to anyone who's into the genre.
  7. Galen
    Feb 8, 2006
    5
    A decent attempt at getting kids to move to sexually charged care free tunes. Marred by the lack of diversity within the instruments, and A decent attempt at getting kids to move to sexually charged care free tunes. Marred by the lack of diversity within the instruments, and song structure. Ultimately it tries to pay homage to the better moments in punk and alternative (The Stooges, Nirvana, Pixies, etc...) but ends up sounding like an anemic rip off. Key Tracks: Nu Rock, Everybody Rules, Take off Your Clothes,… Expand
  8. drewB
    Mar 11, 2006
    0
    too happy too annoying too sucky

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