Russ Ballard & The Barnet Dogs - Into the Fire
#162
1981 Housekeeping
Russ Ballard & The Barnet Dogs
Into the Fire
Genre: This is Kiss…without the makeup, right?
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Julie Wants a Rock and Roll Lover
Breakdown
Tonight
“Julie Wants a Rock and Roll Lover!” Is about as Kiss meets John Cougar as you can get. Russ is dripping in 80s cliches, his voice is dialed in thin and doubled just like a New Wave rocker should be, the drums are dry with emphasis on that snare, there’s a slathering of harmonies and requisite guitar solos.
That don’t make it not good.
You get a little driving Thin Lizzy rock? Here’s “Breakdown” Miss Ace Frehley? “Guilty” comin’ right up. Like some lead licks punched in-between some cock-rock lyrics? May I offer you some “”Don’t Go to Soho”?
That’s this whole record. Everything sounds like someone else because Russ doesn’t really have a personality of his own.
“Tonight”? That’s Kiss. “Strangers”? That’s like “Sure Know Something”, no? Maybe I’m misremembering. Doesn’t matter. This is the lost Kiss record.
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