Track Listing

1. Chains of Love
2. If You Can Want
3. Underdog
4. Your Love Belongs Under a Rock
5. I'll Wait
6. Livin' for the City
7. Thing
8. Kung Fu
9. Ode to a Black Man
10. Got to Give It Up
11. Livin' for the Weekend
12. I'm Qualified to Satisfy You
13. Do You See My Love (For You Growing)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41021 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-29
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
2nd album from 2001 featuring Mick Collins and his merry band of Dirtbombs, the album title taken from the cool late-nite flick Ultraglide In Blue is influenced by Sly & The Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, The Miracles and a host of others to obscure to mention with the addition of squealing feedback-driven guitar, dual drumming and walloping bass. In The Red Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews

detroit rocks
THE DIRTBOMBS, FRONTED BY SINGER MICK COLLINS, ARE A DETROIT ROCK N ROLL, GARAGE PUNK SOUL MOTOWN MIXED BAG. ALTHOUGH MICK COLLINS IS PRETTY LIMITED AS A SINGER, THE BAND ROCKS AND HIS VOICE IS MORE THAN ADEQUATE FOR THIS TYPE OF MUSIC. DETROIT HAS ALWAYS HAD A GREAT MUSIC HISTORY, BESIDES BEING THE BIRTHPLACE OF MOTOWN, THINK OTHER GREAT ARTISTS LIKE THE MC5, IGGY POP AND THE STOOGES, MITCH RYDER, THE DETROIT COBRAS, AND MANY MORE GREAT BANDS. IF YOU LIKE HARD EDGED UP BEAT MUSIC, YOU WILL ENJOY THIS CD.

Garage Soul
This is a great concept, Soul and R&B played like garage rock and in the process inventing a new sub-genre, Garage Soul!! Not just anyone could pull this off though because not just anyone can sing raspy voiced soul over screaming guitars and driving drums. You need a special individual like Mick Collins, lead singer of The Dirtbombs. This is a very innovative album for a cover song disc. It is pulsating, throbbing rock that will put a stupid grin on your face and a cocky strut in your walk. Even when a song doesn't quite adapt to the rock idiom such as Marvin Gaye's dance classic "Got To Give It Up", which has it's keyboard riff transposed to electric guitar, it still works better than it should. Stevie Wonder's "Living For The City" adapts seamlessly to the rock treatment and my personal fave is Thin Lizzy's "Ode To A Black Man". This particular cut should have gotten airplay and would have turned these guys from cult sensations to Rock superstars overnight. Few songs grab me the way this one does when it comes stomping out of the speakers. I've been known to play this one as much as 8 times in a row. The first time I played this album, I said it was one of the best things I had heard in a long time. I think I will be saying that for quite some time. Rock n' soul haven't been this cozy together in a long, long time.

Stop rock n' roll before it's too late...
The Dirtbombs are a great band and this album represents some of their best work. This album has plenty of booty shakin' rock n' soul to go around. How can you go wrong with a band that's almost all rhythm section?

I have a problem with the review by Simone Oltolina. WTF do the White Stripes have to do with a review about the Dirtbombs? If you don't like the Stripes, write a review on one of their albums instead of bringing your mindless drivel to this page.