The 1981 Listening Post - Dan Hartman - It Hurts to Be In Love

 Dan Hartman - It Hurts to Be In Love

#212

June 1981

Dan Hartman

It Hurts to Be In Love

Genre: Rock

2.25 out of 5

Highlights:

All I Need

Requisite 80s cover: “It Hurts to Be In Love” by Gene Pitney. You know what? I don’t know Pitney and I’m not really well versed in Greenfield and Miller so I don’t know this song and it’s fine. But opening your track is a sure sign that you aren’t too secure with your own stuff, you know? 

Is this Kenny Nolan? Is it England Dan and John Ford Coley? 

I’m not wasting a lot of words on this. It’s exactly what you expect from less than great soft rock. Somewhere in the pantheon of concerts in heaven Hartman is just waiting for Fogelberg and Cross to set up a truly excellent night of unctuous love rock on the celestial patio. 

Side Two has more energy than the first and that makes me frustrated. “I Still Remember” has potential…albeit late 70s wannabe-disco-Meco potential but…still. At least it moves. If this record had the glam rock “Positive Forces” on the A Side it might have ranked higher. 

Track order is everything, guys. 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTs3FCmfIKU&list=PLzJphUXJISnmz3CsF8XHXp8p5ZCLsl9dt