#220
1980 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
Touch
Touch
Genre: Total Metal! Wait…no…Toto Metal! That’s it.
25 out of 5
Highlights:
When the Spirit Moves You
When the Spirit Moves You
Black Star
Yes (You Need to Rock n Roll)
Tell me this that doesn’t sound like Toto and Ratt had a baby and it was this. All the elements are there but I don’t think the timing was right. Is it possible that Touch was not in touch with the times but, in actuality, ahead of their time??
I have said this often, but I have a soft spot for this Middle of the Road Power Rock sound. I love the audacity of it, the obligatory guitar solos, the playing-to-the-cheap seats quality, even the damned keyboards. It’s cheese. But I do love me some cheese on occasion.
One of these guys goes off to write for Michael Bolton, among others, but Bolton doesn’t sound like this. This is a band that adored Zeppelin. And Toto. And Queen. And Styx. I hear that in “Black Star”, especially.
If Styx can have a hit with “Come Sail Away”, then Touch should have had one with “Yes (You Need to Rock n Roll)”
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxh-EAslpg
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