#83
April 5 1984
Kim Mitchell
Akimbo Alogo
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Go For a Soda
That’s a Man
Rumor Has It
Loverboy. Toronto. Doug and the Slugs. Martha and the Muffins. Bryan Adams, Barenaked Ladies.
When you are the nicest country with the nicest people you are going to put out competent, oftentimes excellent music. Currently that list includes Black Mountain, New Pornographers, & Japandroids among many others.
I love me some great white north and I love me some good rock. Whoever Kim Mitchell is he makes that happen in spades here. All the bullshit blues that Kevin Ayers tried to pass off earlier is brushed aside by a guy who actually seems to love the music he’s making. I wonder what a Kim Mitchell Joe Perry team up would’ve sounded like. It’s very possible that this is a very good record and it’s also very possible that, listening to it contrapuntally with Vanilla Fudge has altered my perspective.
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