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This is some hot stuff and after getting this, I wonder if I shouldn't have tracked down the first three records instead of the best of collection. I really like this stuff because it's unapologetic 70s hard rock. If you like early KISS, Aersomith, Starz, Rick Derringer or Ted Nugent; you'll like this stuff. But honestly, it's not really as good as any of the aforementioned bands but fits in quite nicely with them. They really needed one or two signature, stand-out tunes which aren't on here...but they're very good and that's good enough for me. I wish I had been turned on to these guys years ago....

Culled from their three albums with vocalist Buzz Shearman, Self-Destruction is a good way to check out the band's best work released in the latter half of the 1970s. You'll also be able to hear just how hard-livin' turned Shearman's clear vocal into a raspy echo. He was later replaced by future Loverboy singer Mike Reno for a fogettable album that, thankfully, isn't included here. Moxy without Shearman wasn't Moxy.

...but isn't EVERYTHING supposed to be big in Texas? Moxy were heavier than a lot of Canadian rock bands from this era, but didn't seem to have any outstanding songs to offer. You can imagine them being a good live band in their day, though