#46
February 16 1980
Rachel Sweet
Protect the Innocent
Genre: Power Pop
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Tonight
Jealous
Fool’s Gold
Take Good Care of Me
Requisite 80s cover:
“New Age” by Velvet Underground. Well…the album is a bunch of songs written by others so it’s difficult to really target them. This is fine. Honest. Since I don’t really love VU, I like it a lot.
“Baby Let’s Play House” by Elvis Presley. Rachel’s just having fun mocking the King.
“New Rose”. A great song. Should’ve been a hit for her. It’s an unbreakable song. She certainly doesn’t hurt it.
This record starts off with a palm muted glam rock piece of power pop confection written by Sweet, “Tonight”. It’s right in that Knack wheelhouse and I’m surprised I’d never heard it. China and Chapman could’ve pumped this one out, easy.
In the late 70s Stiff records was pimping out Rachel pretty hard. Like she was the next Pat Benatar and, you know what? She should’ve been. She’s pretty great, but doesn’t have the heft. She’s more Leather Tuscadero than Suzi Quatro but do YOU know what happened to her?
Well…from Wikipedia: She worked as a writer and executive producer on the television series Dharma & Greg, Commando Nanny, George Lopez, Hot in Cleveland, 2 Broke Girls and The Goldbergs and has worked in television production since the late 1990s.
So I’m not worried about her.
This record is a perfect little version of accessible 1980 New Wave Power Pop. I didn’t want it to end.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2BYXo2kgA&list=PLlvn8uktX5Ls0uLki1Rt94eMzcY-AGPeU
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