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Love this album!
Review written by Anonymous, January 22nd, 2005
It's the distilled essence of pure 80's fun. Polished, downright sassy with a great sense of humor. I don't see the B52's connection someone else made, beyond the use of some wonderfully groovy e-string 'Peter Gunn' style guitar riffs, which may sound 'b52-ish'. I had NO IDEA Buckingham did the guitar on this. Cool! I remember being constantly impressed with the tight-n-snazzy guitar playing on what otherwise seemed like a fun and frivolous pop album.
A totally awesome album
Review written by Mike Hausenfluck (mehmsadp@earthlink.net), January 22nd, 2005
From the Hip is a great follow-up album to Convertible Music, Josie Cotton's first album. It has more of an "80's" sound than the first album and it really showcases Cotton's vocal nuances. I've listened to this album 100's of times and I just can't get tired of it. I highly recommend this record to those of you who like to hear female voices sing songs with a beat.
Dated & repetitive new wave whose time has gone by
Review written by John Fitzgerald, January 22nd, 2005
Lindsey plays guitar on the opener "Jimmy loves Maryann" and you can hear the guitar well but you wouldn't really know it was Lindsey from listening to it as this doesn't seem like his style at all. Frankly, this is badly dated eighties new wave valley girl pop with very little in the way of variation. There's only one speed for all songs, fast. The one ballad "Come with me" even has a rhythm guitar part that makes the song sound faster than it is. For it's own genere, it's not even original as 2 of the 4 songs that Josie takes part in writing are B52's rip offs ("Stop me" of "Planet Claire" and "No use crying" of "Rock lobster"). At least someone like Louise Goffin has some instrumentation variety but you won't find that here.
From The Hip (1984) -