Released: 1978
Tracks: Swingtown; Jungle Love; Take the Money and Run; Rock N’ Me; Serenade; True Fine Love; The Stake; The Joker; Fly Like an Eagle; Threshold; Jet Airliner; Dance, Dance, Dance; Winter Time; Wild Mountain Honey
Best Track: there really isn’t one…
Tracks to skip: Serenade, True Fine Love, The Stake, Threshold, Dance
Death By Classic Rock! This is one of the Sacred Texts of Classic Rock Radio and talking smack about it would surely result in some sort of punishment or something. But I don’t care. OK, I don’t hate this album by any means, and it’s nowhere near as bad as the
Genesis album I reviewed last night. The fact is, most people would have no problem with this album and it would fit in at most any party. Still doesn’t mean that I have to love it.
I know the music can’t help it, but it just sounds SO 70’s. It’s true that it’s hard not to, (esp. with the 70’s) but it’s something I’d personally try to avoid. So yeah, it sounds incredibly dated. And I really don’t like Steve Miller’s voice; I think it’s pretty awful. The lyrics are pretty much all very stupid (like Rock N’ Me, Jungle Love, etc.) so that doesn’t help the disc too much (way too many “Baby’s” and “Mamma’s” for me). Of course I know every single word to all these songs, but since I also know all the lyrics to all of Madonna’s 80’s songs it doesn’t mean that they’re that great. Oh, and Madonna is much worse than this. Like I said, this is stuff most people would enjoy (if you like Classic Rock), but I find it just without any real substance. I don’t care for it, but I’m sure some of you would.
Rating: 68
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