This
album ticks all the right boxes. It’s got a naked lady on the cover. It has a
Parental Advisory sticker. It’s on Atlantic Records - home of, amongst others, Led
Zeppelin. The guitarist is a big fan of Thin Lizzy. It couldn’t get much better
really.Except the album isn’t actually that great. There’s some killer singles on there - Get Your Hands Off My Woman, Growing On Me, I Believe In A Thing Called Love and Love Is Only A Feeling - but the rest of the album is just filler. Just like most average rock albums, the singles are good but they obviously didn’t spend as long on the other songs. In fact the second side of the album - the side without all the singles on it - is pretty forgetful.
I regret not seeing the band at Glastonbury. They were playing the Second Stage, just as they were breaking in the UK, and I remember my good friend Natalie saying I should go and watch them as I’d probably like them. I hadn’t heard about them by that point, but they really caught my attention when I finally heard about them. What’s not to like about a band playing classic rock riffs behind a screaming singer in a white lycra jumpsuit?
Hit: I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Hidden Gem: Friday Night
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