#8/1165
January 1986
The Bangles
In a Different Light
Genre: pop rock
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
In a Different Light
If She Knew What She Wants
Following
It wasn’t a secret how much I adored The Bangles debut. A paisley pop connection perfection.
Then they bought a song from Mr. paisley park himself and suddenly weren’t themselves.
I know everyone adores “Manic Monday” but I maintain (and have for 35 years) that’s its a trite Tods off of bad rhymes and dumber ideas. I mean it sounds like a track that didn’t make it in to Around the World In a Day. And that album wasn’t good. Has anyone read the lyrics to this thing? She is poised cUz her lover chose the night before she had to go to work to have sex. It’s a rock song about complaining about having sex.
What the what??
The group that brought us “Hero Takes a fall” and “Going Down To Liverpool now moves units with dumbassery like “Walk Like an Egyptian”. (It’s stupid but it’s damned catchy, argh)
When they write their own shit it’s so so so much better. And, of course, “September Gurls” is such a delicious tune is impossible to screw It up.
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