The 1981 Listening Post - Hot Dates - Hot Dates

 Hot Dates - Hot Dates

#156

1981 Housekeeping

Hot Dates

Hot Dates

Genre: Power Pop

3.25 out of 5

Highlights:

The Heart of You

Since You’ve Gone Away

Hidden Tracks:

This link includes their 1978 single “I Can’t Stay” at the end with it’s B side “Just Let Me Love You” and therein lies the promise of Hot Dates. Had the album been more like this, it could have been a classic. 

Okay, Bostonians, who knows this band? 

This is very Shoes, Romantics, 2020 style Power Pop. 

But, except for a couple good tracks (“The Heart of You”, “Since You’ve Gone Away”, it feels like a bunch of guys said, “Hey! We gotsta get in on this Power Pop thing! Barbara! Pick me up a skinny tie from the 5 and dime! See you in the studio, Jeff!”

I dig the Power Pop meets Kiss of “Shut Up. But, then again, Kiss was always Power Pop and these guys can’t hold Gene’s codpiece. 

And “Til She Goes” is the most Knackiest of Knack tracks. 

https://www.discogs.com/Hot-Dates-Hot-Dates/release/3459660