#445/2094
October 20 1986
Billy Idol
Whiplash Smile
Genre: New Wave
2.25 out of 5
Lowlights:
Beyond Belief (not that one)
Requisite 80s cover:
“To Be A Lover”, oft covered William Bell and Booker T Jones song. It’s perfectly Idolized here.
That opener…sounds a lot like the template for “Cradle of Love”. But, then again, everything Billy, et al, does sounds like that. It’s all pulsating dance rock. I love it for that but I also get bored by it pretty easily.
Weirdly, when it doesn’t sound like classic Billy, it sounds like…ZZ Top? (“Soul Standing By”)
I wondered why this record is only on Spotify and not available on Apple Music and then I listened to it and now I have more respect for Apple Music.
You know why this album is a whole lotta “meh”?
Two words:
Harold
Faltermeyer.
‘Nuff said.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6oXV5HeLjIKQJE6iecEIGc?si=JZyBQ4z8QgCTqH0AO_9lhQ
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