#65
1985 Housekeeping
A Drop in the Gray
Certain Sculptures
Genre: SynthPop
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
All the Same
Past Your Frame
Has anyone ever heard of this band? I’ve not. The music is fine, standard issue new wave synth pop that owes a LOT to A Flock of Seagulls. And, you know what? That first Flock album is terrific, so you could have a worse role model.
Danny Phillips is the songwriter here and he gets the job done, but the band, the band is tight and they really come through, like The Fixx or Gene Loves Jezebel or some iconic 80’s band or, as is the case on “Turn Me Round”, like latter day Elton John.
But the secret story here is the drummer. Marty Frederickson.
From A Drop in the Gray, Marty “has co-written several of Aerosmith's songs since the mid-1990s, including four of the songs on 1997's Nine Lives (including the single "Nine Lives"), ten of the songs on 2001's Just Push Play (including the singles "Jaded", "Fly Away from Here", and "Sunshine"), both of the new songs on 2002's O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits(including the single "Girls of Summer"), and the lone original track on the 2004 cover album Honkin' on Bobo ("The Grind”).” He was also the singing voice of Jason Lee’s character in Almost Famous.
Other artists he has written for are The Struts, Carrie Underwood, Buckcherry, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue. So, I guess he’s done okay and there’s a reason for his success and it can be found on this record. Although he didn’t write it, it’s filled with super listenable, somewhat memorable, not offensive but not too maudlin music that hits the earholes just right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9NiMiFTAkw&list=PLBJ7ztNazTVBcYiGT9h1k2xZMdjyzzs8q
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