Any album that shares a title with one of Jethro Tull's is already off to a bad start, but Stand Up compounds the problem. The third album by rock's self-proclaimed "ugliest band" is adorned with sleek touches – funky organs, a horn section, a backup choir that includes old-timer Merry Clayton (the woman who almost stole the spotlight from Mick Jagger in "Gimmie Shelter") and stylized Dobro...

Praise the Lord and pass the Bud – the Great Party-Band Famine of the Eighties is over. The Del-Lords, the Fleshtones, the Lyres and the Replacements (when they're not too loaded) are just a few of the top-notch six-pack minstrels thriving in the current U.S. street-rock renaissance. With this debut album, the Del Fuegos blast their way onto that honored list like gangsters crashing a church...