Blind Alley and Borrowed Time are both great. When they rocked, which wasn't nearly often enough here, they were a treat. Fortunately Fanny Hill was a better experience. Mike Canoe: The first time I checked out Fanny online (that's the band for those of you giggling in the back), I found them far too hippy dippy with far too much sincere singing with eyes closed. Several lyrics do groundwork in important women's themes (autonomy, motherhood, like that), but not one – not even Wonderful Feeling, a disarmingly happy-sounding breakup song – offers the kind of concentrated perception that makes a song work or the kind of Charity Ball hook that makes you stop wondering whether a song is working." ( Robert Christgau (opens in new tab)) "Though half the new material is catchy enough, they give themselves away by opening sides with Marvin Gaye's Ain't That Peculiar and the Beatles' Hey Bulldog.
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" Fanny Hill is the group's hardest-rocking set, full of June Millington's big, raunchy guitar figures facing off with Nickey Barclay's rollicking keyboards, the smart but muscular rhythm section of Alice de Buhr on drums and Jean Millington on bass, and the foursome's stellar harmonies." ( AllMusic (opens in new tab)) Featuring an unsung, talented singer in keyboardist Nickey Barclay and two underrated vocalists in the Millington sisters, Fanny also had the benefit of three gifted songwriters among its four skilled musicians, and a world-class guitarist in June Millington." ( The Devil Music (opens in new tab)) "The album’s overall singer/songwriter direction is bolstered by the band’s instrumental ability to sound big or go soft, to tear the roof off the sucker or to strum and sing in a folkish vein.
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