Old Enough to Forget

Um. I couldn't help myself, it was there in a clearance bin and I did like their cover of "Spirit In The Sky" which was a pretty spot on version of Norman Greenbaum's classic. I picked this up fully expecting to have a field day and make a lot of pithy comments, and more of less beat a dead horse. This was a band I didn't know what to do with at time. Looking at the cover images now I can't tell if they were going after a Boy George vibe or exaggerating Robert Smith from The Cure but with more make up and a lot more hair. Listening to it now, I actually feel kind of bad as I missed out on a pretty solid '80s album that was a lot more than it appeared to be. I've played this through a couple of times now, and this really is a solid album. I'll still single out "Spirit in the Sky" as the best song on the album, but it's not a case of killer and filler. They set 'em up and knocked 'em down. I had to go to the ever reliable and ac...

The year was 1979 and the battle between good and evil raged through the land. Disco was making it pretty much impossible to listen to the radio. Still it was a good time for rock and roll. I remember hearing Moon Martin and really liked "Rolene" but at the time I never picked anything up. Fast forward through the years, and I did have a decent retrospective on CD that covered the bases, but I wanted more. Recently I was digging in the bins, and I found a decent copy of Street Fever , which was his third album in three years. It was good, really good but I wanted to find his debut (let's be honest, as good as his version of "Bad Case of Loving You" is, Robert Palmer really made it his own) or his follow up Escape from Domination . As fate would have it I found a copy of the latter and brought it home for a little loving care. Aside from a nick in the vinyl on the second track, which isn't as bad as I'd excepted, it cleaned up real good (extra points for...