The 1982 Listening Post - The Secrets - ...Secrets

 The Secrets - ...Secrets

1982 Housekeeping

The Secrets

…Secrets

Genre: Power Pop

4 out of 5

Highlights:

It’s Your Heart Tonight

Shy Around Girls

Radio Heart

The genre that just won’t die. When you have the skinny tie songs but access to new studio tech, you might find yourself dialing ups the fuller sound and dialing back the dryness that I always loved about the late 70s aspect of Power Pop.

But, here’s the thing, this is what Raspberries would have sounded like 10 years later, I think.

Songs like “Uniform” and “Radio Heart” are simple in subject but powerful in their own way that scream that they want to be sung in front of 50,000 people but I don’t know that The Secrets ever got in front of 500. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XORFKr-G0Lk

The 1980 Listening Post - The Secrets - Success Without College

The Secrets - Success Without College 

1980 Housekeeping

The Secrets

Success Without College

Genre: Canadian Garage

2.25 out of 5

Requisite 80s Cover: “Pretty Woman”. They got there before Van Halen. They don’t do anything with it. It’s pretty faithful. 

This throwback sounding garage rock album is from a previously punk band from Canada. It’s got energy and drive and that’s pretty much it. There’s not a lot of imagination here. 

Until “Tattoo City” which is more Link Wray and Screamin’ Jay than the prior generic garage stuff.

This is genre stuff. If you have tats and slicked hair, wear white tanks and ripped nylons with gobs of makeup, this is the jam for you and your friends.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tjGqEVY7uWim6PrRh9MJ4gYtKGU3aTyP?usp=sharing