Monday, May 25, 2020

The 1980 Listening Post - Secret Affair - Behind Closed Doors

Secret Affair - Behind Closed Doors



#36
1980 Housekeeping
Secret Affair
Behind Closed Doors
Genre: Not as advertised
4 out of 5



Highlights:
What Did You Expect
I Am a Bullet


Let me elaborate. 
Secret Affair was known as a Mod-Revival/Motown tinged/Punk group. 
This
is not
that. 
This is late 70s rock, with saxophones and horns!! It’s also epic Springsteen/Boomtown Rats/Tonio K/The Who storytelling. 
It’s really adept and I don’t know why it didn’t make a dent here. We were primed for it, no? Bat out of Hell was just 3 years before. Bruce was doing things like The River. There was an audience for this. 

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