The 1980 Listening Post - T. Roth and Another Pretty Face - Face Facts

 T. Roth and Another Pretty Face - Dace Facts

1980 Housekeeping

T. Roth and Another Pretty Face

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Genre: Glam Theater

2.5 out of 5

Highlights:

Wild Child

Opening with turning radio dials and not landing on a station is an old trope. Other bands have done it. I’ve never heard one go on as long as the opener here. And it held a ton of promise. 

Unfortunately, the bouncy glam rock “Late Night Radio” isn’t really that great. It feels like it fell off a 1974 Elton John record. Which would be great, but, it’s the track that didn’t make the cut and he would update and re-record in the 80s. That sort of sound. Later, on “People in Love”, the Billy Joel really pushes through and I’m reminded that I saw Billy Joel and Elton John in concert 21 years ago. And Billy was better than Elton. 

This thing is a challenge. It plays like an Off-Broadway play your friends took you to on a Thursday in the basement of church on the lower east side that starred one of the actors from the Planet of the Apes TV show. The one that didn’t become a Broadway star.

Just the worst. Although the glam metal of “Wild Child” is kind of worth the spin.