#91
March 1985
Streets
Crimes in Mind
Genre: Rock
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Broken Glass
When you click on the album, it’s not a mistake. There are two songs, back to back, both named “Don’t Look Back”. They are different songs. This is a typo. The second song is actually “The Nightmare Begins” and is a perfectly fine piece of 80s rock.
What is a group that consists of members of other bands where none of them are especially well known outside of the niche fans of said groups? Not a Supergroup, right? An offshoot? A sub-super group?
That’s what this is.
The lead singer for Kansas. A bassist from Deep Purple. A journeyman axeman from Britain.
They all come together with others (including super writer Randy Goodman) to write a stadium ready mid-tempo, straight to the heart of radio programmer.
If you like that stuff (and I do, when it’s done well) then it’s perfectly pleasant ear candy. It’s a little like, um, Loverboy fronted by Paul Rodgers. Or something like that. (“Desiree”, for example)
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