Tracks
- Kicks
- There's Always Tomorrow
- Little Girl in the 4th Row
- Ballad of a Useless Man
- (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
- There She Goes
- All I Really Need Is You
- Get It On
- Louie, Go Home
- Take a Look at Yourself
- Melody For an Unknown Girl
Midnight Ride is a frustrating album. The songs are a mix of heavy tunes and light, fluffy love songs.
Some songs that start off with a really strong riffs, but they either don't develop it well or they rely too heavily on the riff for the whole song. There's Always Tomorrow and Ballad of a Useless Man lose steam. Get It On and Louie, Go Home don't develop enough. It's really too bad because these songs have so much potential.
There's also a weird dichotomy going on. There's this proto-cock rock sound and then there's this sappy, girly love song soon, too. Other artists and bands have done this with more success. It just fails on this album. Melody For an Unknown Girl is so creepy in a lonely-stalker-kind-of-way that it's actually interesting.
I really wanted to like this album a lot. Kicks is a really great song and I felt like it was going to be a hard rocking album, but then the next couple songs fall flat. The album regains some momentum in the middle and at the end, but it just can't recreate the energy that kicked off the album.
Kicks is the lone stand out song, but (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone, All I Really Need Is You, Get It On and Louie, Go Home have a lot of potential to be great, so are worth listening to, too.
★★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆
Some songs that start off with a really strong riffs, but they either don't develop it well or they rely too heavily on the riff for the whole song. There's Always Tomorrow and Ballad of a Useless Man lose steam. Get It On and Louie, Go Home don't develop enough. It's really too bad because these songs have so much potential.
There's also a weird dichotomy going on. There's this proto-cock rock sound and then there's this sappy, girly love song soon, too. Other artists and bands have done this with more success. It just fails on this album. Melody For an Unknown Girl is so creepy in a lonely-stalker-kind-of-way that it's actually interesting.
I really wanted to like this album a lot. Kicks is a really great song and I felt like it was going to be a hard rocking album, but then the next couple songs fall flat. The album regains some momentum in the middle and at the end, but it just can't recreate the energy that kicked off the album.
Kicks is the lone stand out song, but (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone, All I Really Need Is You, Get It On and Louie, Go Home have a lot of potential to be great, so are worth listening to, too.
★★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆
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