Fact #164386

There was time in the mid-70s when The Rubinoos were one of the spots of bright light in the gloom cast by listless American navel-gazing singer-songwriters and energetic-but-tuneless UK punks. The Rubinoos were quintessential power pop kiddies, whose song Hard To Get uncannily foreshadowed Hanson's Mmmm-bop, but who never found anything resembling success. This album will probably change nothing. Front-man Tommy Dunbar is still writing unbelievably catchy songs that would lift the heart of anybody who loved The Beatles or The Raspberries but there's simply no way to reach the vast potential market for this sort of thing unless Radio Two gets hold of it and plays it to death. Which, as long as they employ cokeheads and brain-dead ex-celebs instead of deejays, they won't.
Johnny Black review in Hi Fi News, July 1999)