The 1983 Listening Post - The Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once
#222
1983 Housekeeping
The Plimsouls
Everywhere at Once
5 out of 5
Highlights:
Shaky City
Lie, Beg, Borrow, and Steal
A Million Miles Away
My Life Ain’t Easy
I’ll Get Lucky
Shaky City
Lie, Beg, Borrow, and Steal
A Million Miles Away
My Life Ain’t Easy
I’ll Get Lucky
I’ve actually never heard this record…
You know the name of one the least heralded but (I think) most influential bands of the 70s? The Nerves. Look em up. Then look up The Beat. Then come visit Peter Case’s The Plimsouls and wonder, why didn’t HE get the kind of props that, I dunno, Marshal Crenshaw did?
This is College Radio Rock at it’s finest. Whatever Greg Kihn has been trying to do for the past decade or so, he should have dropped his guitar and kissed the feet of Case and Jack “Hanging on the Telephone” Lee and Paul Collins. This is the music that the likes of Tommy Tutone was trying and, for some reason, hit records eluded them. They should have been bigger. As should Dwight Twilley…Shoes….20/20….The Records…the list goes on. I miss this kind of music.
I’ve put some highlights up there but, to be honest, there isn’t a clunker on this album.
The production is a bit muddy, but that’s the 80s. Had this been recorded at Sound City it might’ve been a classic. I know the rating is high. Because there isn’t a bad track on this and I find myself thrilled to hear each new track and I will revisit this sooner than any other album on this list.
You know the name of one the least heralded but (I think) most influential bands of the 70s? The Nerves. Look em up. Then look up The Beat. Then come visit Peter Case’s The Plimsouls and wonder, why didn’t HE get the kind of props that, I dunno, Marshal Crenshaw did?
This is College Radio Rock at it’s finest. Whatever Greg Kihn has been trying to do for the past decade or so, he should have dropped his guitar and kissed the feet of Case and Jack “Hanging on the Telephone” Lee and Paul Collins. This is the music that the likes of Tommy Tutone was trying and, for some reason, hit records eluded them. They should have been bigger. As should Dwight Twilley…Shoes….20/20….The Records…the list goes on. I miss this kind of music.
I’ve put some highlights up there but, to be honest, there isn’t a clunker on this album.
The production is a bit muddy, but that’s the 80s. Had this been recorded at Sound City it might’ve been a classic. I know the rating is high. Because there isn’t a bad track on this and I find myself thrilled to hear each new track and I will revisit this sooner than any other album on this list.
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