Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The 1984 Listening Post - Icon - Icon

Icon - Icon


#189
July 7 1984
Icon
Icon
3.75 out of 5

Highlights:
On Your Feet
World War
Under My Gun


I can’t tell if Icon sounds like 80s Kiss or if 80s Kiss sounds like Icon. I have to wonder what separated the Quiet Riots and Rats from theKick Axes and Icons. 
Ratt made an entire career out of, basically, one song and one record…why not Icon? I think these guys are better than Ratt. For what they do, they kick some axe. There is no reason “Under My Gun” wasn’t a hit unless they didn’t make any videos or said videos were terrible. 
This is a perfectly fine addition to the glam-hair-metal catalog. 


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