#185
July 5 1984
Billy Squier
Signs of Life
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
All Night Long
Rock Me Tonite
Billy Squier makes music to drive fast all alone on the highway. In other words, he was making the soundtrack to Miami Vice before Miami Vice was a thing and before Glenn Frey watered it down and smuggified it. The rest of the album is Sammy Hagar territory. Billy could’ve fronted Van Halen and I doubt there’d be any difference, save the amount of alcohol intake.
There is a requisite (for the time) paranoid song about 1984. And a bunch of stuff that just sounds like 3rd rate Foreigner.
Billy knows how to do this, but he’s wearing it’s welcome out.
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