She Rowed/I Just Wanna Make Love To You/In The Summertime/Somebody Stole My Wife/Baby Jump/Follow Me Down/Memoirs Of A Stockbroker/You Better Leave That Whisky Alone/Coming Back To You
Electronically Tested was the follow up album release from the difficult to categorise British pop-rock group Mungo Jerry, who were too poppy to be rock and to rocking too be pop. It features the UK No. 1 dynamic hit Baby Jump (UK:14)
“This is campy, vaudeville style skiffle/pop, with kazoo. What to say about the music on this record? It’s a little bit better than I feared but not as good as I hoped.”
“These guys are no one hit wonders but are great musicians who skiffle, countrify and rock your socks off from time to time.”
“The roots of their music grew out of jug/skiffle bands; they played rough, aggressive and energetic rock. It was unpolished, spontaneous, based on very simple riffs - but the melodies were outstanding. They were living testimony that in order to write and perform powerful music one doesn’t need high-tech gadgets and tons of equipment.”
“There really are some gems here, especially She Rowed which should have been a single, Sadly the original incarnation only lasted for one more album, but during this relatively short time some wonderful foot-tappin’ music was produced.”
“Mungo Jerry's second album hit the stores in the wake of a massive hit single, the lascivious Baby Jump, still one of the rawest records ever to land regular daytime airplay. The full album proved that the hit was no fluke. Indeed, while Mungo Jerry road-tested the sheer musical versatility of the still infant band, Electronically Tested hit the highway with both feet on the accelerator.”
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