#60
1985 Housekeeping
Wire Train
Between Two Words
Genre: Alternative
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Last Perfect Thing
Skills of Summer
Love Love
The 80s are changing. But also staying the same. Swirling, U2 adoring, guitar rock with echoey drums are de rigueur complete with American singers trying to sound as British as possible.
I loved 83’s In A Chamber and this is more of that jangly anthem sound. Even bringing an old Bob Dylan track “God On Our Side” to the era, in a way that probably had Mike Peters going, “huh. Shoulda done that.”
It gets a bit murky by the end, like they had one gear and couldn’t get out of it. It’s not, not in the least, I’m on the Wire Train train but In a Chamber is just a bit better. Although I bet, if he wanted to, Peters could’ve had a legal case over “Two Persons” as it sounds more like The Alarm than the Alarm does. And that song is excellent, btw.
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