#202
July 1984
Y&T
In Rock We Trust
2.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Keep on Runnin’
Your Love is Driving Me Crazy
There’s something sad about this opening track. “Rock and Roll’s Gonna Save the World” is such a pander to a stadium full of head banging, t-shirt clad, parking lot heroes cuz we all know that it’s the anthem of those who have run out of ideas. ‘sides, singing about “rock and roll” is AC/DC’s jam, guys. If you’re gonna sing about it you better bring the fire. Not until they start sounding like Hagar Halen later into the second side (“Don’t Stop Runnin’”) does the album sound like they are having a good time. Why wasn’t this released as a single? And the Hagar continues with “Your Love is Driving Me Crazy” and I wish the album felt more like this.
I bet they sound(ed) great live. And these songs, if you bothered to learn them would be fun to sing along to in concert.
But, here they mostly just sound like rehashed rawk.
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