The Cretones - Snap! Snap!
#725
1981 Housekeeping
The Cretones
Snap! Snap!
Genre: Rock
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Hanging on to No One
Swinging Divorcee
This is listed as “New Wave” but it isn’t. It’s a bunch of rock songs that span genres, thereby encompassing none of them.
Mark Goldenberg writes catchy and sometimes hilarious tunes, like “Swinging Divorcee”. They aren’t reinventing the wheel here. It’s pub rock of the sort that becomes a calling card for songsmiths.
And that must have worked as these guys went on to varied successes, writing for Linda Rondstadt or composing TV show themes.
This is an odd record inasmuch as it doesn’t really seem to belong to 1981. And yet, it has its roots in solid Power Pop but it wants to rock out. I feel like they are a few years ahead of everybody else and that leaves them out of the mainstream while writing solid tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4l0LdPBJcg
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