Thursday, August 4, 2022

The 1981 Listening Post - The Sweat - No More Running

 The Sweat - No More Running



#670

1981 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY

The Sweat

No More Running

Genre: Power Pop

4.75 out of 5 (I could go to 5 but I don’t wanna oversell it)




Highlights:

Isn’t Anything Sacred Anymore

Here Comes Another Lonely Night

You Gotta Lotta Nerve

I Can Hardly Wait

Can’t Help Myself

I Must Be Crazy

Do You Wanna Break My Heart





Are you kidding me? 

This is delicious Power Pop in the Shoes/Romantics vein. 

The hooks are magical. The band reminds me of the first time I heard…I dunno…Chris Pope and The Chords. 

“I Can Hardly Wait” could be an Andersons tune. 

In fact, I would say that this record could have been made by any of the bands who were the children of this genre. 

This is like hearing Great Buildings for the first time. I could have listed just about every tune on the Highlights here. 


I refer you to the Willfully Obscure entry on this one. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wj0pFs1Yu0


http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-sweat-no-more-running-1981-double.html

 




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