Gambler - Love and Other Crimes
September 12 1980
Gambler
Love and Other Crimes
Genre: 80’s Rock
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Little Susie
Hotline
Give a listen to “Hotline”. It is a rabble rousing extravaganza that makes me wonder what became of or what could have been with this band that seemed to put it all on the table and really made a play for the ring.
Weirdly, it’s all there. They are in that Boston, Styx vein and they have the chops. I mean, truthfully, the songs aren’t really catchy so they would have had to have had a label that was behind them. “Life on a Line” could have been a single with the right amount of cocaine fueled payola in the right markets.
Ah, the 70s…listening to them crash into the Power Pop and New Wave 80s is really something.
“I Put My Love” is Spinal Tap at it’s proggy best and the reason this album isn’t a 3.5.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-and-other-crimes/1307081025
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