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Article: Black Leather Mojo / Uppers and Downers / Blame Everyone
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- April 10, 2001
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For a few years last century, the Wildhearts were the world's best rock 'n' roll band you never heard of Though English, they could've tore off from the Sunset Strip-all ratty 'dos, dodgy ink, soiled T's, and drainpipe jeans. The sticker on '93's Earth vs. the Wildhearts, their only U.S. album, boasted that the contents resembled "Jan and Dean colliding with Motorhead" (or was it "the Turtles mounting Motley Crile"? I forget). Forging a kind of Bazooka metal (bubblegun?), they marshaled Cheap Trick's power-pop smarts, Hanoi Rocks' gypsy glam, and Vai/Van Halen's flying-V calisthenics in the service of clever, unpretentious songs fraught with euphoric melodies. That these 'hearts flatlined ...