The Sherbs - The Skill
#404
October 1980
The Sherbs
The Skill
3 out of 5
Highlights:
The Skill
Is it T. Rex? Is it Genesis? Nope. It’s The Sherbs! An Australian band I have zero knowledge of.
So, I’ll just let this album wash over me and see if there’s anything I can recommend.
- "The Skill": Yes, front load with the single. A glam rocker with epic 80s synths that is a few years ahead of its time and also kind of sounds like they could tour with Chicago. ****
- "Back to Zero” - Huey Lewis meets Genesis in a Synthpop haze of radio friendliness. ****
- "Cindy is Waiting” - Australian Springsteen? More like Aussie Jim Steinman. Daryl Braithwait is no Marvin O’Day but he knows where the “ha!”s are. ***
- “Crazy in the Night” - No, not KISS’s “Crazy Nights” (although I do enjoy that song). Nope. It’s ballad time. And, honestly, it’s almost as though Jack Black was sent back in time to record this. **
- “I’ll Be Faster” - You’ll be boring. You’ll be a shitty Eddie Money song. **
- “Never Surrender” - This 80s power synth sound is gonna be all over your radio in a few years. And Loverboy spilled it all over themselves. ***1/2
- “No Turning Back” - This is paint by numbers 80s rock. **1/2
- “Love You to Death” - A perfectly fine middle of the album rock track. Full and fulsome. ***1/2
- “Into the Heat” - A mid-tempo Montrose-esque rocker completely overshadowed by it’s keyboard obsession. **
- “I’m Ok” - Wait. Are they New Wave now? **
- "Juliet and Me" - I bet this is a winner in concert. Fast paced, room for plenty of solos. ***
- “Parallel Bars” - I’ve run out of simile. It sounds like every other band that I’ve mentioned above. ***
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