The 1981 Listening Post - Point Blank - American Exce$$

 Point Blank - American Exce$$

#685

1981 Housekeeping

Point Blank

American Exce$$

Genre: Southern Rock adjacent

3.25 out of 5

Highlights:

Cadillac Dragon

Do It All Night

Look, man. If you’re gonna put that gun to your head then pull the damned trigger. Don’t give me that “Walk Across Fire” nonsense. You promised you’d kill yourself AND you said you didn’t care if you died.

But you clearly do because you are walking around singing about it to every yokel you can. 

This is the sound of a musical style dying. I mean, “Restless” is pretty ok but, if you never hear it you aren’t missing anything. 

The bummer is that the last two songs are the best things on here and I don’t know why you wouldn’t wanna front load this thing. 

Oh well.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0cJ1CkMmbARpP1DCZdfsfB?si=KnR2G999SOGqmdsczx4UPQ

The 1980 Listening Post - Point Blank - The Hard Way

Point Blank - The Hard Way

#126

1980 Housekeeping

Point Blank

The Hard Way

Genre: Southern Rock

3.5 out of 5

Highlights:

Requisite 80s cover:

Deep Purple’s “Highway Star”. It’s a live cut, which is something this band apparently did a lot, put live cuts on their regular albums. I guess they were a good live band that didn’t really translate to studio records. It’s a pretty dynamite version that honors the original well. It’s the best track on the album.

I don’t have a super lot to say about this record. It’s not available anywhere. It’s rather uninspired. There are songs on it. And a lot of boogie guitar. 

But that is one awesome vibrate the lead singer has. Wouldn’t surprise me if he could have made a dent on the Great White Way.

I like it better than .38 Special, though, whom they opened for. 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2M0J8fODM&list=PLlvn8uktX5Lu93bnMsrF3z2ZASPkPSZzA