The Sinceros - Pet Rock
#235
June 15 1981 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
The Sinceros
Pet Rock
Genre: Power Pop
4.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Memory Lane
Socially
Down Down
Barcelona
Girl I Realise
This album…I don’t even know where to start. Elvis Costello energy, Squeeze technique and all sorts of sounds that we loved but had tired of by 1981.
I’m not going to spend 300 words talking about this record.
It’s great.
It should have been a hit. The Sinceros should be more than a one album footnote that no one heard of, and, dammit, if not for this project I would never have heard this.
Every track on Side One could appear on any classic Power Pop records and would be heralded as a gem. I listen to “Falling In and Out of Love” and I swear The Wonderments owned this album.
The album changes right at the song “Nothing Changes” but that’s because leader/guitarist Mark Kjeldsen cedes the songwriting to the bassist, Ron Francois and Ron’s songs are a little more R&B than PP and his blue-eyed soul “Girl I Realise” could’ve been a hit for New Edition. It’s a moment of revelation for Don Snow as well. Which explains why he was in such high demand. Yes, the same Don Snow who would take over for Paul Carrack in Squeeze.
This album is a dustbin gem.
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