The 1982 Listening Post - Streetheart - Streetheart

 Streetheart - Streetheart

January 29 1982

Streetheart

Streetheart

Genre: Canadian Stadium Rock

3.75 out of 5

Highlights:

What Kind of Love is This

Snow White

Listen to those synths soaring over pulsating bass! This is the most Loverboy record Loverboy never recorded. It’s no surprise that the bassist here would join the aforementioned and be their bassist from 2001 on. 

Chock Full of big Glam songs dressed up in big instrumentation, elevated vocals, this is the kind of sweet spot 80s Rock that might show up in a deep cut playlist of epic 80s rock you’ve never heard. 

The big hits deserve to be on a playlist. The rest are fine filler. Kenny Shields has that hard rock androgyny that should have elevated him to the top echelon on 80s Hair Metal status. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buc8B4GhSzI&list=PLH4xxtEMLOpDonaTGMVYkyjf8xPJGGK9b

The 1980 Listening Post - Streetheart - Quicksand Shoes

 Streetheart - Quicksand Shoes

1980 Housekeeping

Streetheart

Quicksand Shoes

Genre: Canadian Rock

2.5 out of 5

Remember when bands would put out 2 albums a year? That feels like an eternity ago.

Well, Streetheart put out not one, but TWO mediocre rockers in 1980.

Someone had a lot of faith in these guys.

I kind of liked “Sin City” but maybe I just like driving bass lines. And “500 Miles” seems to want to be something of a showstopper. 

It’s more of the same as the other Streetheart album. Maybe a little less interesting. 

Missing 2 tracks so…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st7uNNVl--M&list=PLlvn8uktX5LvxBu4FitmfZ2gsFMJRILru

The 1980 Listening Post - Streetheart - Drugstore Dancer

 Streetheart - Drugstore Dancer

#254

June 15 1980

Streetheart

Drugstore Dancer

Genre: Glam Metal

3.5 out of 5 

Highlights:

Drugstore Dancer

There are times that I get to an album for which we only have YouTube links to put together a playlist and I am thrilled to see the following word: “missing”…which means that certain tracks could not be found to complete the album but there are enough songs to give a sense of the entire experience and not enough to toss the entire album away. And I get excited because often that means the album is trash and I don’t have to listen to the whole thing.

And, given my experience with Streetheart, I was expecting that to be the exact case. It wasn’t. I could have listened to another pair of glam metal rock tracks from these guys. I wouldn’t run out to buy their album but it’s not awful. 

Here’s one of the many magical things about Canada. They have a rule that all radio stations (and video channels) have to play a certain percentage of Canadian bands. Which is why they get stuff like Axe and Go For a Soda and MyoFist as part of their musical lineage. And most of those bands don’t break through here. For every Loverboy, there’s a dozen Streethearts. 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4xCyTNWsxA&list=PLlvn8uktX5Lsn4Hp4B9By51VxQnL5BCze (Missing 2 tracks - You're Crash Skirt and Let Me Go)