The Visitors - No Sign of Intelligent Life
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1981 Housekeeping
Visitors
No Sign of Intelligent Life
Genre: Power Pop
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Enter the Eighties
How Do People Fall in Love
If you open your album in 1981 with a tune called “Enter the Eighties” it better be a bop.
I’m here to report that it actually is. A power pop gem that is like a lacerating piece of blister pop.
After that it gets pretty by-the-numbers. Which isn’t gonna play well in a world where this sound is dying.
Reminds me a bit of The Brains. Not as great as that debut, though.
Hillary Stench, what a name, is the bassist and he would play with Pearl Harbor and the Explosions.
There’s some cute but piffle stuff, like “Man with the X-Ray Eyes” and it’s devotion to 1950s ballad pop. Which is immediately followed by “Test of Time” which could have been a Power Pop tune for my favorite bands in the early aughts.
But the insipidity of the songs runs deep. “She’s My Girlfriend”? “(I Love My) Rock and Roll Records”? “I Like to Steal”? Oy. Even though that last one was kinda catchy and I wanna cover it.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1umscQ0fVBo5_M7EeeD22FzDrw-MIaxNh?usp=sharing
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