The Rockets - No Ballads
January 7 1980 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
The Rockets
No Ballads
Genre: Rock, straight, no chaser.
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Desire
Don’t Hold On
Takin’ It Back
Requisite 80s Cover: Lou Reed’s “Sally Can’t Dance”. Lou’s never sounded this good.
As much as I love their follow up what I hear on this first Rockets record is a line from late 60s Paisley rock through the South, even though it might just be South Detroit, where a band that might have been a little tambourine heavy tossed all that shit, grew their hair long and doubled down on the Zeppelin Adulation. Even when they are Presley derivative (I Want You To Love Me, they still rock and I wanna play pool in the bar where they play.
David Hood once played with these guys. His son is Patterson Hood, lead singer of Drive-By Truckers.
There are really good bones here. And you what else?
No Ballads.
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