Cobra Verde gets the top score in Playboy! RockMeter tally of 38 bests AFI, the Music and others

Playboy
May 2003
Cobra Verde
Easy Listening

Cobra Verde has been making deceptively contrary rock for years. There's more to CV's latest, Easy Listening (Muscle Tone), than is suggested by the surface pastiche of Iggy, Ziggy and Roxy (and Jimmy Webb). Dig past the artifice and glam affectation, and you'll find plenty of hard-driving nihilism and sarcasm. --Leopold Froehlich