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  • Summary: This is the third full-length for the Detroit garage rockers led by guitarist Mick Collins (ex of the Gories) and featuring a supersized rhythm section of two bass players and two drummers. Included in early versions are bonus covers of Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat" and Robyn Hitchcock'sThis is the third full-length for the Detroit garage rockers led by guitarist Mick Collins (ex of the Gories) and featuring a supersized rhythm section of two bass players and two drummers. Included in early versions are bonus covers of Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat" and Robyn Hitchcock's "Executioner of Love." Expand
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  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. 100
    Dangerous Magical Noise is rock and roll at its pure, shaggy best. If you're tired of that, you're tired of life.
  2. Collins's way with a hook has blown up into a stack of tunes that stick, ranging from cranked-up faux-arena rock to spine-shaking rhythm and staccato bounce.
  3. Stubbornly lo-fi and expectedly scrappy, the album is also tremendously listenable, a rhythmic, leg-flailing romp through vintage soul cool, glam boogie, classic rock thrash, and punk bravado.
  4. The Dirtbombs are a rock & roll band pure and simple, and if you like pure and simple rock & roll with a dash of soul, you will flip over Dangerous Magical Noise.
  5. Blender
    80
    Dangerous Magical Noise is a great Friday night, and your ears will ring through Sunday. [Nov 2003, p.112]
  6. Under The Radar
    70
    They are clearly a band of great musical knowledge and breadth, yet manage to avoid coming off as pale pastiches of other great bands. [#5, p.100]
  7. Uncut
    60
    The fact this collection of originals is inferior to 2001's Ultraglide In Black (a covers album) reveals [Mick Collins'] songwriting has never matched his energy. [Nov 2003, p.118]

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  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. DrunkenMaster
    Aug 31, 2006
    10
    Rock and roll at its best: a tasty Motown tribute with a spicy punk rock center. If your booty don't move you're dead or a Rock and roll at its best: a tasty Motown tribute with a spicy punk rock center. If your booty don't move you're dead or a republican (which is worse). Expand

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