S.V.T. - No Regrets
1981 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
S.V.T.
No Regrets
Genre: Rock
4.25 out of 5 (I could go higher)
Highlights:
Heart of Stone
No Regrets
Secret
Admit it. You saw that band name and thought…Surf Punk, right? It’s not. It’s more like the 80s rock we really loved as the years progressed. Big echo on the drums and the vocals, straight up rock and roll that hews closer to, I dunno, The Alarm or The Unforgiven than it does to the late 70s New Wavers. It could be argued that SVT was there first but no one remembers SVT so that argument would wither on the vine.
And that’s a damned shame cuz this album really pours the gas on the embers of a rock sound that takes what they might have learned from Darkness on the Edge of Town and makes it into something with a lot of potential.
If you can get me air drumming or air Townshending, you’ve got something working. “Secret” was that joint for me.
And I don’t mind the big ballad toward the end because, by this time, they’ve earned it. In fact, I would say that it’s welcome as a cleanser. Because the closer, like an epilogue, is a Romantics style burner.
This album really grew on me.
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