John Hiatt - All Of a Sudden
1982 Housekeeping
John Hiatt
All of a Sudden
Genre: New Wave/Rock
4 out of 5
Highlights:
I Look for Love
This Secret Life
Some Fun Now
The opener, “I Look for Love” is what you get when you take Elvis Costello and try to make him Peter Gabriel. The slathering of synths and gloss is too knowing of the era. It’s a good song, I bet, but Visconti and Hiatt are trying to get a hit in 1982 and that’s what happens when you do that.
I just looked at every LP review of Hiatt and I keep referencing Elvis. Truth is, these songs are all perfectly fine but lacking in urgency or hooks to make me want to return. “Some Fun Now”…that’s an Elvis song, yes?
And I wish that John had had more success so I wouldn’t make these comparisons but, they are impossible for me to avoid.
In the end, this record is really good. Not sure it is a Hiatt fan’s go-to. But it’s good.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/all-of-a-sudden/1443745256
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