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ARTIST: The Guess Who
TITLE: Rockin'
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: RCA
PRODUCT #: LSP-4602
RECORD CONDITION: MINT! STILL SEALED! NEW OLD STOCK!
JACKET CONDITION: NM, MINT- HAS SAW CUT ON CORNER. CORNERS ARE A LITTLE ROUNDED. (PRICE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY)
DESCRIPTION: review by Joe Viglione & allmusic

" is 's last of three albums with ; he came onboard with for and recorded as well, the two men slipping into the big shoes of . This finds in a definite '50s mode, "Running Bear" and "Nashville Sneakers" being throwbacks to another time. When "Herbert's a Loser" kicks, one can't help but feel it's been enough already, "Herbert's a Loser" being the one tune composed by the / guitar team. The album predominantly features the songwriting of , though does lend a generous hand. As an artistic statement it's all very interesting, but for a band whose bread and butter was the Top 40, this stuff tempts fate a bit too much. released an album with the same title the same year, 1972. Lots of artists released albums titled , in fact: back in 1957 and with in 1964, among many, many others. The nostalgia aside, "Heartbroken Bopper" is a true original and an almost-hit single. If you think ripped off 's "Fame," you're only half right; they stole the melody from : got the melody for "Last Child" directly from "Heartbroken Bopper."

Along with the musical about-face, this is also the darkest album, featuring a black-and-white cover and a black-and-white gatefold, and when the band's not back in the past, pre-color TV, they are doing boogie-woogie like "Get Your Ribbons On" or going negative with "Guns, Guns, Guns." "Guns, Guns, Guns" does have a terrific melody (though you'll swear nicked from this one as well), with showing signs of life. "Smoke Big Factory" is the only other tune next to "Heartbroken Bopper" and "Guns, Guns, Guns" that sounds truly like , a good album track borrowing much from 's first solo album version of "Berlin," also on RCA. The guitars are innovative and it's too bad the album wasn't full of more of these instead of the travels back in time. The "Sea of Love"/"Heaven Only Moved Once Yesterday"/"Don't You Want Me" medley is another oddity, quasi-psychedelia meets doo wop, stranger than the "Musicione" track from 's LP. When you spin this right next to 1973's , you can really feel what both and brought to the table, and despite 's reign of hits initiated with that album, neither band achieved the heights of the first four albums, including the first one without , . is a strange exercise whose best parts showed up on ."

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