Welcome to a new feature I’m going to try out here on my Substack New Dimensions, where I focus on good (and sometimes great) albums that perhaps have been neglected over the years and are in need of some reappraisal from having spent too long lurking in the record browsers back in the day, and still now….hence
Great idea for a regular feature! I know (and used to own) their first Sire LP, but I’m completely unfamiliar with this one.
Thanks man! It’s funny, I listened to some of that first Sire LP, but it didn’t do as much for me as this one (need to listen again!)
They definitely upped the power pop flavor on the second album, but not surprising, since they were attempting to cross-over to the US market.
Yeah, I didn't love the first one either, which is why I didn't hang on to it...