#281/915 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
July 1985
Holland
Little Monsters
Genre: Rock
4.75 out of 5 (I might go up to a 5 if there aren’t a lot of 5s throughout the year. It’s delicious IMO)
Highlights:
Love In On Time
High Life
Middle of a Dream
Wake Up the Neighborhood
Keep It To Yourself
Who the fuck is Holland? Jeez, this sounds like American Whitesnake.
I’ll be right back, Imma read the wiki entry.
This is the ONLY album by this Chicago band.
I don’t get it. It’s like Kick Axe but actually even more electric.
There was a band in the early naughties called Diamond Nights. They put out a record called Popsicle. It was terrific. They had a minor hit with “The Girl’s Attractive” and, I thought, sounded at times like they were inspired by Judas Priest in all the best ways.
This is even better than that album.
The production is so clean I would swear they were a Canadian band.
Side One is one massive attack after another, culminating in “Wake Up the Neighborhood” which is as good or better than anything Motley Crue put out at the time.
Let’s see what Side Two is all about.
Oh. It’s all great 80s era power rock. Echo drums aside, “Gotta Run” is splendid but you know what’s better? The nearly gated drumming is great on both “Basics of the Bullet”, which could easily have been a GnR tune (Tommy Holland sounds nothing like Axl but, seriously, can’t you hear Axl screeching that one?) and the album closer, “I Want It”, which should have been an MTV Anthem staple. It’s got Def Leppard all over it, except the guitar slinging is tons better, and I love me some Leppard.
How did these guys slide into obscurity so hard?
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