This is what hardrock is all about,yet its not any tired old offering, familiar guitar riffs dredged up from drink sodden wrinklies.The album is crammed with glorious tuneful songs, rasping vocals from one of the most underrated rock singers around and tongue in the cheeck lyrics about drinking and women.

This is Nazareth at their best.After several average albums in the 1980's (when rock music lost its way),the 1990's albums No Jive and Move Me announced that the band were back rocking, yet something was still missing.

Buy Boogaloo.Play Boogaloo very loud. You will then be in no doubt that Nazareth are back, playing as Loud and Proud as ever.


FLASH - ONE OF THE BEST HARD ROCK ALBUMS EVER!!   November 11, 2000
Mark Ostendorf (Ismay, MT USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I own all of Nazareth's albums, at least 20 or so, and I wanted to let the album age a bit before forming my opinion - but I have to say this is the best album they have ever made! Fast songs, slow songs, funky songs, boogie songs - and all are excellent. It seems to combine all the different genres of music the band has experimented with into one incredible sound. Usually a bands best effort comes early in their career, so this album is a truly amazing feat - even a triumph. Even their best albums have 1 or 2 bad songs, but I just cannot criticize any of the tracks on this album. Light Comes Down, Talk Talk, Robber and the Roadie, Loverman, Light Comes Down, and Waiting are the top tier of songs, and the rest of the songs are very respectable and clever. It is an extremely fastpaced album, and the final ballad doesn't really match their finer ones, but the Southern boogie/blues track "God Saved The South" is excellent lyrically and has a great feel, and is the the only song on the album that lets you catch your breath. Some of Nazareth's albums are all over the place, and seem to sound like 3 different albums mixed together - but on Boogaloo the variety is wonderful, yet all the songs still mesh together well. This album is wonderful, I've given it incredible replay over the past 1 to 2 years, 5 STARS with no hesitation on my part - and I'm being objective. I own almost every classic hard rock album ever made, and this one is a treasure.


Grrreat!   December 16, 1999
A. Vankov (MA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I liked it a lot. I was born in 67 in Moscow - Nazareth is still one of the most popular bands in Russia among my generation. This CD sounded as good as their best ballads. Go Dan!


Nazareth's best album-ever!   May 14, 1999
emil.gammeltoft@scandic-hotels.com (Stockholm, Sweden)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

As a Naz-fan you can be nothing but proud to hear Boogaloo. I mean, my God, from the first second in, you are blown away by the sheer power of this beast of an album! Top quality songs, Dan's best vocal performance ever, top guitars, top and hard sound, top energy, top everything! There is so much good songs on here, so it's very hard to find anyone that is shining more than the other. Just do yourself a favour, buy the thing. You will not be disappointed. This is maybe the last album you will hear from Naz, because of Darrell Sweets sad demise. A fine testament of what rock`n roll is all about.It shines!!!


AS NAZ AS EVER!   October 13, 2000
Shan Ziel (Fort Collins, CO United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

If you get a chance to see Nazareth live do so.

If you like Naz buy this recording!

"It is wall to wall on Wall Street" and the best investment advice I have for anyone out there is to buy this recording.

I often prattle on to long in my reviews. I have to words for this exclent Naz--buy it! Wait three words--buy it now!

Bias warning: I'm on a big UFO binge and this is the only non-UFO making it into the player at this time. How can anybody not like Naz?