Wild Horses - Stand Your Ground
#180
May 8 1981
Wild Horses
Stand Your Ground
Genre: Rock
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Stand Your Ground
This sounds like Thin Lizzy for a reason. Wild Horses was formed by ex-Thin Lizzy and ex-Rainbow guys, proving that they were not the secret sauce in either of those groups.
I mean, Robertson shreds and Bain lays down that incessant pulsating bass with the best of them but…the songs…I mean, they aren’t really about anything. Case in point “In the City”. Not really sure who they are warning about life in the city and why but, come on, we all know it’s an excuse to lay down some sweet licks and get in the rhythm section pocket. Right?
It’s all there on tracks like “Back in the USA” and “Another Lover” and none of which are bad, per se. They are perfectly fine groove rock tunes. And, for my tastes, I’d rather have this than, say, .38 Special or Molly Hatchett, not that this is Southern Rock, just that they are all diluted versions of something better.
They give up after this album flops. No one is worse off for that, though.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/stand-your-ground/669418746
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