Hope You Like It

GOOD

Great album .....

I can't understand why everyone is so down on this album as well as the band? Every major rock star had to start their career somewhere, and this is where Brian Johnson started his before he went on to bigger and better things with AC/DC.Granted, Geordie didn't break any real ground musically, but that's not the point...they weren't trying to. Like their UK counterparts The Move and Slade, Geordie were simply a loud, good-time pub band who wrote catchy and fun songs with a punchy, hard rock edge.I seriously beg to differ with anyone who thinks that Brian Johnson doesn't have one of the most powerful and distinctive rock & roll voices; that may not be the case now since he's been screaming for 24 years with AC/DC, but at the time that Geordie were at their peak, Johnson's voice had the ability to splinter concrete! The only equal to Johnson would be Noddy Holder of Slade; that guy had tonsils made out of iron!On "Hope You Like It", Geordie's infectious, catchy songs are pretty much all over the map; my personal favorites are the crunchy "Give You 'Til Monday" and "Natural Born Loser" as well as their UK hit singles "Can You Do It?", "Geordie Stomp", "Black Cat Woman", "All Because Of You", and the great "Don't Do That".Perhaps the oddest song of the lot is the goofy "Geordie's Lost His Liggie", where Johnson sounds as if he'd put away one pint too many and goes into a mock-Cockney/Scottish accent on the vocals. I get a kick out of him breaking up laughing at the end of the song, and then you hear the sound of him lighting up a cigar and blowing out the match; he obviously had a great time with that one!All in all, this is a good, fun rock album; there are certainly worse ways for one to start their career, but this is no embarassing "skeleton in the closet" for Brian Johnson. I recommend this CD!

extraordinario disco, el primero de esta banda de Inglaterra.Geordie empieza poderosamente con melodias muy bien estructuradas con mucha fuerza. Muy equilibrado en sus partes y excelentemente ejecutado.La voz de Brian Johnson es única, la guitarra de Vic Malcom es ejecutada con maestría, mientras que el bajo de Tom Hill y la batería de Gibson marcan magistralmente el desarrollo de cada pista.Las letras si bien no son una obra poética si reflejan las perocupaciones de la banda y cierto ambiente de la región.Después de esta trabajo seguirá otro también notable. Seguidamente vendrá un decaimiento notorio para dar paso a la caida dramática del grupo, que produce trabajos francamente muy pobres y mediocres.

This is one of those cases when a miracle appears to occur in a person's life. The person in point is singer Brian Johnson. It's a miracle that AC/DC picked him up to replace the late Bon Scott. Why? Because there is nothing in Geordie to put this band above some of the most dull, insipid and common rock bands from the 70's. Ok, Brian's voice at that time was really powerful and with personality, but the songs and the musicians.. ugh! absolutely nithing to remember, I assure you. Just generic rock and roll.

As a big fan of Geordie in the 70s,I still like their albums,which have a varied style. As to the previous comment that Brian Johnson went onto bigger and better things with AC/DC well maybe bigger, but I would rather listen to Geordie anytime to be honest, as others have said Johnson's vocals are better on those songs

Useless seventie's hard rock album. Not a single gram of originality here. Also, you will find that Brian Johnson's voice was already some of the worst rock voices ever, since the beginning!

Remembered (if at all) these days as being the band that launched future AC / DC vocalist Brian Johnson, Geordie inhabited a musical terrain (on record at least), somewhat similar to that of Slade. Their songs were short, strong on choruses, and very direct musically. Johnson was a great singer even then, and even when the songs aren't great, the energy exhibited by him and the rest of the band is infectious. I bought their debut single, 'Don't Do That', back when it was originally released. It's an odd kind of East European stompalong, briskly played. Guitarist Vic Malcolm was a good, unflashly guitarist, and the rhythm section of Tom Hill and Brian Gibson were similarly talented. There's some excellent, hard rocking pop stuff here, a little of its time, but there's no denying the fun that the band seem to be having. This reissue is nicely annotated, the sound is good, and comes with bonus tracks. Likeable, enjoyable, if hardly essential.

Husband's Christmas present. He's a very happy chappy.

I always thought Geordie had a great rock sound when I bought there three hit singles in the 70's (all included here), not being able to afford the album in it's day I was looking forward to a quality re-release of this album, listening to it today it shows that Geordie weren't just a singles band, the album is strong and consistant from start to finish, I can just imagine the Young brothers listening to this album as fans when it came out

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