#542 LISTENING POST ADMIN DISCOVERY
1986 Housekeeping
The Unforgiven
The Unforgiven
Genre: Big Dumb 80s Anthemic Rawk Fun!
4 out of 5 (It’s really a 3.75 but I give it the extra .25 cuz I dig this kind of stuff, unapologetically and unironically)
Highlights:
I Hear the Call
Hang ‘em High
Requisite 80s Cover: A rollicking Country Rock version of “Amazing Grace”. Short, to the point and a lot of fun.
I am not usually in league with S.T. Erlewhine but, this time he wrote an assessment so spot on that I have to pilfer it and include it because I can’t do better”
“Storming across the dusty streets of a Western town are the Unforgiven, a sextet of street slingers hailing from the mean streets of Los Angeles in 1986. It was a rough time, one when money hung heavy in the air, one when any group of rocking vagabonds could possibly strike gold if they were teamed with the right set of prospectors, which the Unforgiven undoubtedly were.”
This is everything we recall about the 80s rock. It’s big and obnoxious and self-important. It’s Bon Jovi meets The Alarm meets U2 meets every echoey guitar and pounding drum cliche you remember. It’s faux Spaghetti westerns and wannabe cowboy rockers.
In 1986 this is more pap n’ trash. Today, it’s an ironically nostalgic piece of pop rock goodness. It’s junk food. But, fuck it. Pass the Cheetos.
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