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The Riplets | Rock 'N' Roll Beat

A nice album by a nice band.
CD, My First Sonny Weissmuller/Konkurrent

Tekst: Tijs Heesterbeek

Publicatiedatum: 22 december 2002

With an all-girl band playing Ramones-style punk and singing about boys, alcohol, and a combination of those things, a comparison with the Donnas is never far away. But after listening to Rock 'n Roll Beat a couple of times, you feel you are selling the girls short with that hasty comparison. When the influence of the Ramones is becoming too obvious, or when the resemblance with the Donnas is too much, a few well-placed handclaps, backing vocals, or organs change your perception of the Riplets and give the band their own face.

The girls in the Riplets aren't really riot grrls, they haven't got a bad-girl image, and their music isn't that serious. The threesome focus themselves more on the fun of playing music and the daily worries of everyday people (like bugs that spoil a holiday, lovesickness, and being out of alcohol) than on being tough girls. This can also be seen in the layout. Dutch cartoonist Barbara Stok (who also has a cartoon in a weekly girls'/women's magazine) was responsible for the sleeve design. The drawings of nail polish bottles, sneakers, cherries, and spiders give the album a real innocent look. But this doesn't mean the CD doesn't harbour a good portion of '50s rock 'n' roll, '60s beat, and '70s punk with a nice female touch; even the Beatles' 'Wanna Be Your Man' isn't safe for the girls and changes into 'Wanna Be Your Girl.'

Rock 'n Roll Beat is a nice album by a nice band which can only grow musically, and who will be a great live band, surely, now that they've recruited a permanent organ player.

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