#33
1985 Housekeeping
The Kane Gang
The Bad and Lowdown World of the Kane Gang
Genre: Blue Eyed Soul
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Gun Law
Take this Train
Losersville
Right off the bat I can’t tell if this is R&B or rock. As New Wave and Punk and New Romantics tried to find their place in a world where their 15 minutes were really up a lot of them seem to have tried a hybrid dance/rock sound. This is that. There is an artery of that sound this is the INXS expressway, these guys headed to that on ramp and stayed on the Shabooh Shoobah interchange to the George Michael Junction and waved at Joe Jackson’s Body & Soul shop as it past it going 90.
This is white boy soul at its whitest and souliest. For a record listed as “Rock” and “New Wave” it’s not. Had I known….
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