Human Switchboard - Who's Landing in My Hanger?
#514
October 1981 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
Human Switchboard
Who’s Landing In My Hanger?
Genre: New Wave VU
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Say No to Saturday’s Girl
Who’s Landing In My Hanger?
(I Used To) Believe In You
Book on Looks
Where the Light Breaks
I almost forgot what it was like to enjoy simple song crafting about heartache and heartbreak and love.
The title track could have been a Boomtown Rats joint if they had a sweet farfisa organ played with abandon.
The bassist produced this and it sounds like a bassist produced it. Which is a damned shame because it sounds muddy as hell and the songs deserve better.
If you like Velvet Underground “Refrigerator Door” pulls on all those strings but I like the give and take here more than anything Nico ever did. And they never wrote anything as lacerating as “(I Used To) Believe In You”. Maybe they did and I didn’t hear it. But this is a decade later and I prefer this.
But the songs don’t linger in the memory. I do wonder what they might have come up with had they stuck around but…they didn’t. I’ll keep the highlights, tho.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/whos-landing-in-my-hangar/1462791814
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