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Anouk Finally Strikes Gold with "Who's Your Momma" CD

H. Griffin | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 02/23/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Anouk Finally Strikes Gold with "Who's Your Momma" CD. Although Anouk has released a number of records with some really great under appreciated and under promoted songs, the albums have mostly been overburdened by ballads (that also happened to be fairly similar). However with "Who's Your Momma" Anouk has finally produced a great rock album with variety that you can enjoy all the way through with no songs you want to skip.



Half of Anouk's best 16 songs appear on this CD. If Anouk was American or British there would be at least 3 hit songs here. They are: the pop radio and MTV perfect "Ball and Chain", the hard rocking rip roaring ready for rock radio " If I Go" (great for the pole dancers at the local strip club as well), and the cheerful up-tempo "Good God" reminiscent of 60's Girl Bands and better than any Amy Winehouse number. There are also the potential hits: the semi-ballad "Make It Rain" and the bouncy "Might as Well" with it's typical Anouk vocals (sometimes it seems her vocals could almost becalled a musical instrument rather than a voice).



On this CD Anouk tried to do a few very different songs than her norm and with success. They would be the above mentioned " Good God" and the soul-like "Whatever You Say". There is also the country rockish "Modern world"l. There are thankfully only three ballads here as there always should have been. All three are excellent and among Anouk's best. They are: "Daze, "I Don't Wanna Hurt", and "If You Were Mine". The first two may also be potential singles.



Anouk has her influences as any musician does. However, she also has a strong individuality and creativity to make this a must have for anyone looking for new music from a woman that both rocks and sings beautiful songs. If you are female you can not help but love this album. If you are a male, as I am, that likes woman that can rock. and of which there are so pitifully few, you will also love this album.



I fear this CD will not achieve the promotion and radio airplay it deserves outside the Netherlands (Anouk is a Dutch singer). If not, maybe when Anouk releases her Greatest Hits package it will be a breakout success that is long overdue (as Peter Framptom's greatest hits double LP was in the 70's) and she will finally get the acclaim and record sales she deserves in the anglo world.



-Henk Griffin"