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All the Young Droogs: 60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks, Rock'N'Glam (And a Flavour of Bubblegum) from the 70's Image
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  • Summary: The 60-track box set compiled by Phil King features "junk shop glam" songs from bands from such countries as Australia, Ireland, Iceland, Netherlands, New Zeasland, Sweden, the UK, and the US.
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  1. Mar 25, 2019
    90
    Aan invaluable resource for aficionados of this very weird, very exciting period of music. The set is certainly the equal of the essential junk shop glam collections that have come before it, and the care and thought put into it might even make it better. Either way, fans of the sound and era should be glad that this sound is being dug up again.
  2. Classic Rock Magazine
    Feb 12, 2019
    90
    This jubilant, ritzy resurrection offers a Poundland paradise. [Mar 2019, p.95]
  3. Uncut
    Feb 12, 2019
    80
    All The Young Droogs plots a grotty course through its age, but finds something joyful and heroic at the bottom of the bargain bucket. [Mar 2019, p.38]
  4. Feb 12, 2019
    80
    The comp is thoughtfully subdivided by mood/demeanour, with each disc respectively entitled Rock Off!, Tubthumpers & Hellraisers and Elegance & Decadence. The successfully realised intention is to demonstrate that there was more to glam than just implacable, sequin-shedding, mindless stomping--though some of us would be perfectly content with three discs’ worth of just that.
  5. Mojo
    Feb 19, 2019
    80
    Not for the uncommitted, this is a time capsule to a place where those over-burdened by taste will not want to go. but junk shop superhead/compiler/indie rock Zelig Phil King has reminded us that if we do some things differently in the past, they do other things--thrills, strangeness, escape--the same. [Apr 2019, p.103]
  6. Feb 12, 2019
    74
    Most Droogs inclusions are fairly frivolous affairs lyrically--anthems of lust, celebrations of rocking out--but Third World War anticipate punk themes with the proletarian plaint and Strummer-like sandpaper vocals of “Working Class Man.” Hustler forge a link between the Faces and Cockney Rejects with “Get Outta My ’Ouse,” which is like Magic’s “Rude” recast as pub boogie.
  7. Q Magazine
    Mar 12, 2019
    60
    Explores the furthest reaches of what its creators have christened "junk-shop glam." [May 2019, p.119]