| Oh Yeah! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | the Spongetones |
| Cover: | Oh Yeah! (Spongetones album) cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Genre: | Power pop[1] |
| Label: | Black Vinyl |
| Producer: | Jamie Hoover |
| Prev Title: | Where-Ever-Land |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Beat & Tom |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Oh Yeah! is an album by the American band the Spongetones, released in 1991.[2] [3] It was issued by the Shoes' Black Vinyl Records, and was one of the first non-Shoes albums to be released by the label.[4] [5] Oh Yeah! was reissued in Japan by Sony Records, in 1995.[6]
The album was produced by band member Jamie Hoover, and was recorded at his house in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area.[7]
Stereo Review thought that "the fourteen cuts are actually an embarrassment of riches, like a greatest-hits album from the land of ought-to-be."[8] Trouser Press wrote that "the disc’s only real negative aspect is the disappointingly thin-sounding production."[9]
The Chicago Tribune praised "Am I Dancing or What?", writing that it "finds the 'Tones taking a slow ska boat down the Mersey and jumping off for an exuberant psychedelic break in midstream." The Virginian-Pilot determined that "the chinka-chinka guitar, Lennon-esque harmonica and perfect harmonies give the disc a feel that is refreshingly unpretentious."[10]
AllMusic called the album "infectious Beatlesque power pop ... easily their best songwriting." MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide concluded that Oh Yeah! "assimilates the Spongetones' influences into a brilliant work that's still beholden to the Beatles, but less slavish in its devotion."