#25
January 1985
John Hiatt
Warming Up to the Ice Age
4 out of 5
Genre: MOR Rock
Highlights:
The Crush
Warming Up to the Ice Age
I Got a Gun
Boy do I feel old listening to this.
Maybe it’s because I’m in the waiting room of a doctor’s office and everyone walking through the door looks like they are 6 feet from the undertaker. Which is weird since this doc is the “dermatologist to the stars”. No kidding. A well known pop diva name dropped him in a People Magazine interview.
I expected more youthful and vital people here.
Oh yeah. John Hiatt.
Big, clean, meticulous Soul Rock.
Rock for the Oldies. A theme that is beginning to take shape in 1985.
Oh, and as the Elvis Costello duet cover of “Live a little, laugh a little” by The Spinners came on, the clientele of this office completely changed.
I get it. (The office and the album)
It’s Stevie Ray, Huey Lewis, ZZ Top, John Fogerty...all fine, all aimed squarely at your father’s wallet. It’s the soundtrack to every bloated, CAA-packaged star driven, overwrought, unfunny comedy of the era...looking at you, Legal Eagles.
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