Old Enough to Forget

When I found this album back in '83 it had a remainder cut out on the cover. Makes one wonder what Capital records thought was going to happen with a three song vanity project from Brian May. Me, I loved this from the moment I saw it ... I just knew, KNEW it was going to be awesome. I was determined to love this no matter what. How hard could it be to love something that had Brian May and Eddie Van Halen on the same album? Apparently not hard at all ... but harder than I first thought ... but it didn't matter. Rounding out the friends, was drummer Alan Gratzer (REO Speedwagon), bassist Phil Chen (Rod Steward, Jeff Beck, Joan Armatrading) and Fred Mandel (Alice Cooper, Domenic Troiano, Queen and Pink Floyd) on keyboards. These boys could play. As Brian writes on the back cover essay this was just supposed to be a hang and jam with some people he had wanted to play with. You can practically hear the songs coming together. The three songs on the MINI LP are essentially an audible ...

"Whisper to a Scream" was one of those songs that was so good once it got under your skin it stayed there. I also recall buying the album and listening to the it all the way through probably a grand total of one time, then passing judgment: in these grooves there be nothing but filler. So on this instalment of A Streaming Pile of Hit - where you put the "s" in hit is up to you, I present for my revisionist listening pleasure the 1984 debut album from The Icicle Works, coincidentally also called The Icicle Works . Since I lost my original copy, this was an album I wanted to find on vinyl. Over the last few years I've come up empty. It's not like I was trying super hard, but I looked. Every so often I'd hear "Whisper to a Scream" and think, there had to be more to the band than just this one song. So I kept looking ... until I gave up and just found it on my streaming service. Why not? It doesn't have to be hard, and while there are a lot o...