Monday, August 9, 2021

The 1980 Listening Post - American Noise - American Noise

 American Noise - American Noise



1980 Housekeeping

American Noise

American Noise

Genre: Midwest Cheap Trick Wannabes

3.75 out of 5




Highlights:

Take it All

I Can’t Feel Any Pain


Kim Fowley has a couple co-writing credits here. And from what I’ve read, some of these guys would go on to work with Donnie Iris and Eric Carmen and you can hear all of that here.

Senior songwriter and frontman Craig Balzer died in 2011. This is some solid American Rock. 

After all the power pop we’ve had this year it’s nice to hear someone bite on Aerosmith and then play in that Kiss/Bryan Adams lane. 

Yes, that’s a lane. Listen to “Runnin’ Through the Night” and you’ll hear it. 

This kind of Cheap Trick sounding stuff should have been better received. It really crackles. 

The Fowley tracks are, sadly, the weakest. But that isn’t saying much since a lot of this record is excellent. 




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otB0CUuye8c&list=PL_C6Jk8TEfSQahUjbZA9y-_ajQYYCICk7&index=2

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