#82
1980 Housekeeping
Rick Derringer
Face to Face
Genre: Not as good as Rick Springfield
2.25 out of 5
Requisite 80s cover:
“My, My, Hey, Hey” by Neil Young. This is a love version which exists to show Rick’s noodle chops. He manages to suck the life out of a song that was already kind of wilted to begin with.
Rick Derringer is, like, the 80s anti-Butch Walker. Walker puts out his own albums and they don’t really do that well and no one really cares but the songs are good and when he writes with others he can craft some super hits.
Rick writes really crappy albums but somehow was able to elevate Weird Al Yankovic into a hitmaker.
How’s that for a reach?
These songs sound like Rick Springfield rejects. Really terrible attempts at power pop (“Runaway”), at southern rock (You’ll Get Yours”) and a better craftsman like Jim Steinman could make “Burn the Midnight Oil” into something but Rick can’t.
There’s a live version of “Jump, Jump, Jump” here and when Rick says, “I wonder is there anybody here?” the audience cheers and I refuse to believe that many people ever collected in the same place to hear Rick Derringer do anything.
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