#175
1980 Housekeeping
Flash and the Pan
Lights in the Night
Genre: (Not the) Buggles
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Captain Beware
“Media Man”. It sounds like and is basically the same concept as “Video Killed the Radio Star”. It’s actually sort of remarkably so. I don’t know which came first, nor do I really care because that kind of thing happens.
This is another record that should be 2 songs longer and they should all be shortened by 30-90 seconds to make that work. There’s no reason to keep going on and on once the song is inarguably over and the guys aren’t adding anything interesting, musically, to the rest of the track. Harry Vanda wants very badly to be as interesting as Pink Floyd and Yes and, at this point, he isn’t.
If “Welcome to the Universe” didn’t suffer from a bloated 2 minute intro and a 3 minute coda it might actually make it to the highlight reel. It’s not great but it’s got that Richard O’Brien feel and I’m here for that.
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