Old Enough to Forget

It's been a few days of albums from 1980. Well, since I'm here I may as well enjoy myself. The Records followed up their 1979 debut, the one that had "Teenarama" and the stellar "Starry Eyes" with Crashes . This is the one where a young Jude Cole, who had just left Moon Martin, joined up with The Records to replace lead guitarist and vocalist Huw Gower. This was really the golden age of that first wave of power pop that ran in parallel to the chaos of punk. It siphoned off the energy and rebelliousness but wrapped everything in starry pop goodness that payed homage to it's rock roots but was carving out it's own sound.(don't roll your eyes, I worked hard to work "starry" in, and it's not even on this album).  The Records had managed to get a foot in the door in North America in '79, and a year later when Crashes was released the band came over to support the release playing smaller rooms, like the legendary Commodore Ballroom in...

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...