But, don’t be surprised if the cops show up. Geils Band Bloodshot ((Aint Nothin but A) House Party, Make Up Your Mind and more). Break out the turntable, invite the friends over. The real standout is their signature “Give it To Me,” which slinks along a groove, powered by percussion and harmonica.Īnd, who could miss “Don’t Try To Hide It,” with the lyrics “I see your hiney / it’s nice and shiny.”Ī solid record from top to bottom. GEILS BAND Bloodshot Atlantic SD 7260 THE ISLEYS Live T-Neck TNS 3010-2 (Buddah) RAMSEY LEWIS Funky Serenity Columbia KC. “Make Up Your Mind” is an excellent mid tempo number, while “Southside Shuffle” is a funky good time. The rest of the record is originals, yet you’d never know it. The other cover, “Hold Your Loving” by Titus Turner, is even faster than the King Records’ original, whipping the entire band into a frenzy. This sounds like a party we’ll all regret in the morning, but is sure fun while it’s happening. The single version of 'Give it to Me', which had a very different ending from the album version, reached 30 on the U.S. It was the breakthrough release for the band, reaching 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States, a peak that the band would not surpass until their 1981 multi-platinum album Freeze Frame. The album was released on April 12, 1973, by Atlantic Records. Case in point: the album’s lead off track, “(Ain’t Nothin’ But a) House Party.” The original version by the Show Stoppers was a decent soul clapper, but the Geils Band retools it into a funky rocker. Bloodshot is the third studio album by American rock band The J. Geils Band took classic R&B and infused it with a furious rock n’ roll attitude. Geils Band, Bloodshot – on red vinyl no less!Īt their best, the J. Geils Bands third studio album and their first Top Ten (and last until 1982s smash Freeze Frame). Well now, they’ve entered the vinyl market by reissuing a classic album from the J. Geils Band Bloodshot Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Red Translucent, Santa Maria Pressing Country: US Released: 1973 Genre: Rock Style. One of the best from this criminally under appreciated bandįrom Patti Page to punk rock, Real Gone Music has done an excellent job over the years of reissuing forgotten classics.
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