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SuperSmile CD EP Big Deal 1994 Stuck In The Middle With You (Rafferty/Egan) She Exploded (Dietrich) Edie (Will You Marry Me?) (Deal) Hush, Hush (Case/Alkes/Fradkin) Ever Fallen In Love? (Shelley)

Steven Deal - vocals, guitars

Robert Dietrich - vocals, guitars

Dean McNulty - bass

Nick Appleby - bass, slide guitar

Kirk Snedeker - drums

Larry Walter - drums

Track 1 engineered by Vic Steffans at Horizon Studios. Tracks 2 and 3 engineered by Adam Lasus at Studio Red. Track 4 is the work of Rich Robinson at Trod Nossel. Track 5 engineered by Lou Giordano at Fort Apache.

Reviews

And here's another radio friendly wake up call from Chopper -- Supersmile EP, a little companion piece to the brilliant Slogans and Jingles debut LP that features 3 wonderful covers including an amazing acoustic re-working of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love" (Fine Young who?). The two originals will also satisfy your simple pop sweet tooth, so get on board already.
BUZZZ, 1994.

Chopper's Supersmile EP clocks in at a more expected 15 minutes, but they use the time well with two of their strongest powerpop originals, plus the American release of a great Plimsouls song taken off an Aussie tribute album. And the band's dated Top 40 instincts dovetail nicely when one song boldly broaches the topic of marriage, while the duo cleverly reveals their own late 60's roots with an acoustic cover of The Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love?" that celebrates Chad & Jeremy, Peter & Gordon, and several other nice lads who flew in on The Beatles' backdraft.
J.R. TAYLOR, NEW YORK PRESS, JULY 20-26, 1994.

Who needs forced 'tribute' albums when bands can instead pick songs they naturally want to do? On this five song EP, CT's Chopper displays taste in outside material with three cool covers. There's a simple-rendered, light-hearted "Stuck In The Middle With You" (a 1973 hit for Stealer's Wheel, long before Reservoir Dogs), a power-pop "Hush, Hush," and a Jam-ish, unplugged "Ever Fallen In Love?" The two originals hark back to Chopper's Slogans and Jingles post-punk meets '60's style, making a fun mini-LP.
JACK RABID, HUH Magazine, 1994.

I'd just found Ferguslie Park on eight-track when this arrived, a five -track EP which opens with a note-perfect cover of "Stuck In The Middle With You", and I wonder, is this a Stealer's Wheel revival I see before me? I hope not -- Gerry Rafferty had one of the most annoying beards in the world, and besides, Chopper seem more set on recapturing Badfinger. Which means half of them will be dead long before Mariah Carey gets round to covering their best-known song.
Three covers, two originals, but no difference -- Chopper are punch-packed pop, a butch Materialissue sprinkled with light psychedelics ("She Exploded"), Ramones-ey harmonies ("Edie"), and a nod to the last true masters of the genre, an acoustic cover of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love?" And though it's nowhere near as nasty as the Fine Young Cannibals' version, Chopper should give it the axe, regardless.
DAVE THOMPSON, ALTERNATIVE PRESS, 1994.

Chopper's 1993 Slogans and Jingles CD would have been considered power-pop album of the year if it had come out any year except '93, the year of Yellow Pills and Chris von Sneidern's awesome Sight and Sound. Supersmile is a five-song EP that mixes two tracks from Slogans and Jingles with three covers. "She Exploded" and "Edie (Will You Marry Me?)" are still terrific, of course, but the covers are the main attraction here.
Chopper provides exuberant, winning takes on Stealer's Wheel's "Stuck In The Middle WithYou" and the Plimsoul's "Hush,Hush" (the latter appeared previously on an Australian Plimsouls tribute disc), and an acoustic reading of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love?" also succeeds. Supersmile offers further evidence that Chopper can simply do no wrong.
CARL CAFARELLI, GOLDMINE, 1994.

This is the kind of music that really confuses me. It is so good, yet so few bands that are like this these days actually make it. It's too mellow for MTV or "Alternative Radio" -- not common enough for "Adult Contemporary Radio," and not weird enough for college radio. Chopper does really good covers of "Stuck In Th e Middle With You" by Stealer's Wheel,The Plimsouls' "Hush, Hush," and a version of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love?" that almost makes you forget that it was massacred a few years back by FineYoung Cannibals. It's a shame that people have forgotten how good it is to hear a sweet, calm, happy tune.
HEIDI, NO JANGLE -- THRUST HERE, 1994

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