Disco de Dr. Hook: “Revisited”

As with all of Dr Hook's output, this album of magical content from one of Rock's all time zainy bands is priceless and timeless. The other reviewers seem to have covered it, so I'll just encorage you to buy it, then come visit the other Hook fans and original members of the band, in the Official Dr Hook online Fanclub and community. We'll be glad to HOOK up!!

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Get some old friends together, have a few beers and play this CD. This is great party music. Slightly dated, but catchy tunes with tongue-in-cheek lyrics. This is a very good collection of Dr. Hooks best.

Also wanted to let the person in Virginia know that I've heard the song Soupstone, when I was in a club in Texas. Didn't know it was Dr. Hook. Now I'd like to find the album.

This is not the same Dr. Hook that, after dropping "and the Medicine Show" from their name, did the biggest musical switcheroo since the Doobie Brothers acquired Michael McDonald. If you're lookin' for their disco-fied hits "When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman" and "Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk" (even those titles make me cringe), then click elsewhere. All ten tracks of trash on "Revisited" come from the demented pen of Shel Silverstein, who, besides composing left-of-center hit songs ("A Boy Named Sue", "The Unicorn", "Tequila Sheila"), also contributed article and cartoons for Playboy AND wrote classic children's books. The tune titles here tell the tawdry tale: "Acapulco Goldie", "Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie", "Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball" and more demented debauchery. Two numbers are even fondly remembered bona fide hits---the melancholy "Sylvia's Mother" and that odorous ode to fame n' fortune, "Cover of the Rolling Stone" (which actually DID get their ugly mugs on that rag). Sleazy songs, greasy instrumentation, and party-hearty vocals make this early greatest "hits" sound like Dr. Hook had just as much fun making it as I did listening to it. "Revisited" really oughta come with one of those little warning stickers found on other substances that are supposedly bad for you: CAUTION-Listening to this disc is infectious and may be hazardous to your health!

RATING: FIVE YUKS

I bought this only knowing "...Rolling Stone" but loved everything on it (well, almost). It launched a serious Dr. Hook interest for me. A great compilation.

Shel Silverstein has always been my hero. His children's books, A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends, have always been on the top of every 5-10th graders favorite books. So as we grow up so do our taste, but what a surprise it was to find that Shel Silverstein grew up too. Dr. Hooks lyrics (many written by Silverstein) are in the same loopy style that made Silverstein's poems so enjoyable, but now they have a more adult theme. I love it and you will too.