1980 Housekeeping
Sterling
City Kids
Genre: Power Pop/Rock
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Good Girl
It’s Only Love
Requisite 80s Cover: A dark and slinky cover of “Baby, It’s You” that I really dig.
It’s 1980 and The Cars had scored not one, but two master rekkids so it stands to reason that we would get labels to unearth a bunch of bands that are trying out that simple, driving New Wave style. This one is a bit crunchier and less charismatic, if that’s possible considering Ocasek’s warble. “And She’s Mine” sounds like a leftover from Candy-O and it probably should have stayed on the floor.
Bob Clearmountain was the engineer here so A&M put some cash into the project. But the songs really aren’t there.
We are missing 2 tracks, so points off for that…leaves us with…
A shame because I would love to have heard more from these Cheap Trick wannabes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHKXrQ-Dfkg&list=PLGztd6MIOZmDoH2XfqudDIGwJnF5Qh-bI
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