#454/2104 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
October 29 1986
The Angels
Howling
Genre: Power Rock
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
When the Time Comes
Don’t Waste My Time
Where Do You Run
Hide Your Face
Standing Over You
Requisite 80s cover:
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place” by Mann & Weil, turning it into…an INXS song? If it was recorded by Iggy Pop, who absolutely should have done this. It’s the weakest track on the record, btw.
If you take just about any 70s Glam Power Pop Rock band (like, say, Bay City Rollers) and add a ton of heft, crank up the bass and teach one of them to lick on his axe like he was making up for not having an aluminum foil wrapped cucumber in his pants, you might get The Angels.
I still don’t like the lead singer all that much but this is actually better than their last and makes me want to go back into the archives and listen to their oodles of earlier stuff.
Of course, the reason this is so good is probably cuz the lead singer and guitarist jettisoned the rest of the band really went for that commercial sound. They hit it in spades but there were no takers stateside. This is not a ready made hitmaker. This is the kind of band that needs to slog it out in 50 cities and towns and pubs and clubs and make a name for themselves in a van.
Hard to do that from Australia.
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