| | Amazon.co.uk: Monkey Island: Music: Geils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The J. Geils Band's 1977 album "Monkey Island" was a commercial failure (it never managed to crack the top 50), but there seems to be a common consensus, even among professional critics, that it is in fact one of the band's best records. |
 | | But most of the album just isn't memorable enough to compete with the tough, melodious blues-and-boogie of their early-70s records, and it doesn't have the pop hooks of the band's later mainstream-oriented LPs either. |
 | | "Monkey Island" tries very hard to be a serious record, Geils' answer to The Rolling Stones' "Exile On Main Street", but all that seriousness unfortunately means that there is little or no room for the big riffs, the hooks, the grooves and the melodies that made records like "The Morning After" and "Bloodshot" so good. |
| www.amazon.co.uk /Monkey-Island-Geils/dp/B000002J6B (504 words) |