All-Music Guide (C) 1994 by Matrix Software, Big Rapids, MI 49307 Please submit correction
All-Music Guide (C) 1994 by Matrix Software, Big Rapids, MI 49307
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Artist : BoDeans
Genre : Rock
Style : Roots-rock, Contemporary
Instr. : Group
Rating : importance (3) popularity (3)
All-Music Guide Biography
The BoDeans are led by Sammy Llana and Kurt Neumann, guitarists,
singers, and songwriters from Wakesha, WI, who play tight,
well-arranged guitar rock on their several albums for Slash/Warner
Brothers. ~ William Ruhlmann
---------- Related Artists -----------
Los Lobos
S440
---------- Roots & Influences ----------
Byrds
Everly Brothers
Buffalo Springfield
Burnett, T-Bone
AMG Artist ID # : P000003726
Chronological Album List |Date| Label | Number |R S T|Rating
--------------------------------+----+----------+--------+-----+------
Black and White |1991|Slash |26487 |R | Good
Home |1989|Slash |25876 | S | Good
Outside Looking In |1987|Slash |25629 | S | OK
Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams |1986|Slash |25403 |R |+BestA
Go Slow Down | |Slash | | |
All-Music Guide Album Details (Alphabetical Order)
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Album : Black and White
Artist : BoDeans
Rating : Good
Charts : Billboard #105, entered Apr 20, 1991, on charts 005 weeks
Rock & Roll Disc #3/3
Genre : Rock
Time : 48:22 min
Date : Mar 26, 1991 (release)
AMG ID : R000058451 (album inprint)
--------- Album Releases ---------
1991 CD Slash 2-26487
1991 CS Slash 4-26487
1991 Reprise 26487
CD Slash 9 26487-2
Slash 26487
CD Warner Brothers 26487
------- AMG Album Reviews -------
Known for their rootsy rock sound the BoDeans were one of the original
jangly guitar bands ... they aim for a more commercial sound.... All
is not lost; Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas remain good songwriters, and
redeeming material like "Good Things" and "Forever on My Mind" save
this disc from drowning in mainstream sound. ~ Sheryl Hunter, Rock &
Roll Disc.
After moderate sales on their first three albums threatened to forever
classify them as an alternative band, BoDeans started tackling bigger
themes on BLACK AND WHITE, produced by Prince sideman David Z. The
band hardly sounds like the roots-oriented band of their previous
efforts, Sam Llanas and Kurt Neumann sound more ambitious as
songwriters. So "Black, White and Blood Red" is about more than race,
the same way the anthemic "Naked" is about more than sex, the same way
the hooky "Good Things" is about more than some guy who can't meet a
girl. BLACK AND WHITE is about using individual problems as analogies
to social ones. It's also about loneless and hardship. It also didn't
sell that much better (if any) than the first albums. ~ Brian
Mansfield
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Album : Go Slow Down
Artist : Bodeans
Rating : not rated yet
Genre : Rock
AMG ID : R000189368 (album inprint)
--------- Album Releases ---------
CD Slash 45455-2
CS Slash 45455-4
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Home
Artist : BoDeans
Rating : Good
Charts : Billboard #094, entered Jul 22, 1989, on charts 013 weeks
Genre : Rock
Time : 56:40 min
Date : Jun 27, 1989 (release)
AMG ID : R000002211 (album inprint)
--------- Album Releases ---------
1989 CD Slash 2-25876
1989 CS Slash 4-25876
CD Warner Brothers 25876
Slash/ Reprise 25876
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Bob Griffin
Sam Llanas
Kurt Neumann
Timothy Pwell - Engineer
Michael Ramos
Jim Scott - Producer, Engineer
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Album : Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams
Artist : BoDeans
Rating : Best-of-Artist (First Pick)
Charts : Billboard #115, entered Jun 7 , 1986, on charts 019 weeks
Genre : Rock
Time : 41:40 min
Date : 1986 (release)
AMG ID : R000002209 (album inprint)
--------- Album Releases ---------
1985 CD Slash 2-25403
1985 CS Slash 4-25403
1986 LP Slash 11
CD Warner Brothers 25403
1986 Warner Brothers 25403
------- AMG Album Reviews -------
On this debut album, Llanas and Neumann are at their best on songs
like "Fadeaway," where their sweet-and-sour harmonizing rules over a
bouncing rock arrangement full of twangy guitars. There is just enough
fidelity to basic rock & roll, and the right number of individual
twists to mark the group's considerable promise. ~ William Ruhlmann
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Album : Outside Looking In
Artist : BoDeans
Rating : OK
Charts : Billboard #086, entered Oct 10, 1987, on charts 020 weeks
Genre : Rock
Time : 48:40 min
Date : 1987 (release)
AMG ID : R000002210 (album inprint)
--------- Album Releases ---------
1987 CD Slash 2-25629
1987 CS Slash 4-25629
1987 LP Slash 8280711
CD Warner Brothers 25629
Warner Brothers 25629
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
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