#128
April 26 1985
The Hooters
Nervous Night
Genre: Power Pop
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
And We Danced
Day By Day
Blood From a Stone
Next to Hoobastank is there any worse named band in the history of Rock?
No.
The answer to that is no no no.
Also, “And We Danced” is a serious earworm. Admit it. Just reading those words you have the song in your head now, right?
You know why? Cuz it’s a blast. I dare say…it’s a hoot. It’s joy. I cringed every time they played on MTV but, deep down, I loved that song.
Not enough to buy their record, however.
And now, here we are.
I’m still not a fan of the songs from their previous EP and, instead of rocking out, they soften their sound with instruments like a melodica which makes them sound like The Rubinoos, which is fine but there’s already a Rubinoos and that sound didn’t really burn up the radio waves, did it?
The album is definitely a step up from Amore but I find it cloying (“Where Do the Children Go?”) and a bit derivative.
Yeah, “Blood From a Stone” was a highlights on their first one but, it’s a good song and it deserves it’s place here. Plus Red Rockers covered it and it was great there, too.
