Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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  • Monkey Island [Atlantic, 1977] B+

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Monkey Island [Atlantic, 1977]
For no good historical reason--1977 is hardly the year of white r&b--this marginally offensive boogie cartoon has suddenly put together twenty minutes of music as consistent as side two of its 1970 debut. A hard one and a soft one and a cover and a closet-intellectual one and a pretty good one--that's their gamut, right? Overdisc, the nine-minute title track bombs and the other originals fail to take off, but the band does a number on Louis Armstrong's "I'm Not Rough," splitting the hard part between Magic Dick's harp and J.'s guitar. So give 'em a hand, folks--they earned it. B+