See my Cheap Trick review a couple posts ago: always kind of associated these bands, realized I'd never really heard them.
Ah, see, now this is more like it. This album provides the kind of slightly smooth 70's rock I was hoping Cheap Trick would provide. Its a little lame at times, a little dated, but it is a lot hookier, and a lot cooler than Heaven Tonight, mostly pulling off its swagger, making me smile despite myself a couple times a song. These are tales of troubled but mostly harmless youth, with a pretty good, skittery band behind them - nothing particularly arty, nothing particularly intense, but totally agreeable, never boring. Romeo and the Lonely Girl is a highlight, but all the songs have at least one good, unexpected moment. It is extremely not bad. More really good lemonade than really good scotch, this evokes Dire Straights, Steely Dan, and early Bruce Springsteen - catchy and refreshing, generally unchallenging and plenty easy to enjoy 4/5
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